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SNDT Women’s University

1, Nathibai Thackersey Road, Mumbai 400 020

M.A. Syllabus- English

(For Regular and Distance Education Students)

Faculty Name: Arts

Course Name: M.A. English

No. of Semesters: 4

No. of Credits per Semesters: 20

Total number of Credits: 80

Objectives:

1. The students will be able to focus on creative and critical texts written

in and translated into English.

2. The students will be able to critically re-examine and analyze in a

comparative frame literary texts, locations, agencies, productions and

history of reception of these texts.

3. The students will be able to analyze contemporary approaches in

literary criticism and linguistics theories.

Note: Objectives are also given separately for individual papers.

Eligibility:

1. The candidate needs to clear the Bachelor of Arts/Commerce/Science

examination or any other equivalent examination with 50%

aggregate, to be eligible for the course.

2. Advanced English Language Competency is required.

3. An Entrance test comprising of an advanced level English language

comprehension and literary appreciation will be mandatory for

candidates from disciplines other than English.

SCHEME: Semester I

Unit /

Paper No

Titles of Unit/Paper Subject

Code Nos.

L Cr P /

T

TP TW P/V T

4

lectures

Per

week

(1

lecture-

2hrs)

4 50 50 100

For Regular and Distance

Learning students

Semester

I

Modern Critical Theory 101001 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

I

Any one of the following four

papers

4

Post Modernism and Critical

theory

101111 4 50 50 100

Critical theories from the

Global South

101112 4 50 50 100

Feminist Critical theory 101113 4 50 50 100

Marxist Critical theory 101114 4 50 50 100

Semester

I

Genre Paper : Drama 101002 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

I

Any one of the following

three options

4

Representation of Women in

Dramatic Texts

101121 4

50 50 100

Modern Drama In India 101122 4 50 50 100

Drama from the Global South 101123 4 50 50 100

Semester

I

Adaptations of Shakespeare

in Cinema

101003

4 4 50 50 100

(for Regular students)

OR

Re-Reading Canonical

Drama

(for Distance Learning

students)

101303

Total

20

500

L = No. of Lectures / week, P / T = Practical / Tutorial in hrs, D = Duration of

Theory paper for Examination in hrs, TP = Theory Paper-marks, TW = Term

Work - marks,

P/V = Practical / Viva Voce - marks, T = Total

Evaluation/ Assessment for all modules:

Internal: 50 marks (Two or more assignments on Theory and Prescribed

texts)

External: 50 marks (Two questions of 25 marks each with internal choice)

SCHEME: Semester II (For Regular Students)

Unit/

Paper No

Titles of the Unit/Paper Subject

Code Nos.

L Cr P

/

T

TP TW P/V T

4 lectures

Per Week

(1 lecture-

2hrs)

50 50 100

Semester

II

Research Methodology 201007 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

II


Clusters-A (two papers)

OR

B (two papers)

4 50 50 100

Semester

II

Cluster A

1A Post-Colonial Theory and

Practice

201151 4 4 50 50 100

2A Post-Colonial Voices 201152 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

II

OR

Cluster B

4

1B Literatures of Diaspora:

Theory and Practice

201161 4 4 50 50 100

2B Indian Literary Diaspora 201162 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

II


Clusters-C (two papers)

OR

D (two papers)

Cluster-C

1C

Theories of Language

Acquisition and Learning And

Approaches to Syllabus

Design

201171 4 4 50 50 100

2C

Language Teaching Skills and

Issues in Language Testing

201172 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

II

OR

Cluster-D

1D

Translation Studies: Theory

and Practice

201181 4 4 50 50 100

2D Literatures in Translation 201182 4 4 50 50 100

Total 20 500



Work - marks,




texts)


SCHEME: Semester II (For Distance Learning Students)

Unit/Paper

No


Code Nos.

L Cr P

/

T

TP TW P/V T

Semester

III

Genre Paper :Novel 201004 4 lectures

Per Week

(1lecture-

2hours)

4 50 50 100

Semester

III


three options

4

The Eighteenth and

Nineteenth century British

novel.

201131 4 50 50 100

The Modernist and the Post-

Modernist Novel

4 50 50 100

Novels from the Global

South

4 50 50 100

Semester

III

Genre Paper III :Poetry 201005 4 4

Semester

III


four papers

4

Epics and the Long Poems

from the Classical to the

Modern.

4 50 50 100

English Poetry from the

Renaissance to the

Nineteenth century.

4 50 50 100

The Bhakti Tradition and

twentieth century Indian

Poetry

201143 4 50 50 100

Modern Poetry: Anglo

American and European

4 50 50 100

Semester

III

Novels by Women Writers

201306 4 4 50 50 100

Total 20 500



Work - marks,




texts)


SCHEME: Semester III (For Regular Students)

Unit/Paper

No


Code Nos.

L Cr P

/

T

TP TW P/V T

Semester

III

Genre Paper :Novel 301004 4 lectures

Per Week

(1lecture-

2hours)

4 50 50 100

Semester

III


three options

4

The Eighteenth and

Nineteenth century British

novel.

301131 4 50 50 100

The Modernist and the Post- 301132 4 50 50 100

Modernist Novel

Novels from the Global

South

301133 4 50 50 100

Semester

III

Genre Paper III :Poetry 301005 4 4

Semester

III


four papers

4

Epics and the Long Poems

from the Classical to the

Modern.

301141 4 50 50 100

English Poetry from the

Renaissance to the

Nineteenth century.

301142 4 50 50 100

The Bhakti Tradition and

twentieth century Indian

Poetry

301143 4 50 50 100

Modern Poetry: Anglo

American and European

301144 4 50 50 100

Semester

III

Research Component

301777 4 4 50 50 100

Total 20 500



Work - marks,




texts)


SCHEME: Semester III (For Distance Learning Students)

Unit/ Paper

No


Code

Nos.

L Cr P /

T

TP TW P/V T

4 lectures

Per Week

(1 lecture-

2hrs)

50 50 100

Semester II

Research Methodology 301007 4 4 50 50 100

Semester II


Clusters-A (two papers)

OR

B (two papers)

4 50 50 100

Semester II

Cluster A

1A Post-Colonial Theory and

Practice

301151 4 4 50 50 100

2A Post-Colonial Voices 301152 4 4 50 50 100

Semester II

OR

Cluster B

4

1B Literatures of Diaspora: Theory

and Practice

4 4 50 50 100

2B Indian Literary Diaspora 4 4 50 50 100

Semester II


Clusters-C (two papers)

OR

D (two papers)

Cluster-C

1C

Theories of Language

Acquisition and Learning And

Approaches to Syllabus Design

301171 4 4 50 50 100

2C

Language Teaching Skills and

Issues in Language Testing

301172 4 4 50 50 100

Semester II

OR

Cluster-D

1D

Translation Studies: Theory and

Practice

4 4 50 50 100

2D Literatures in Translation 4 4 50 50 100

Total 20 500



Work - marks,




texts)


SCHEME: Semester IV (For Regular Students)

Unit/

Paper No

Title of the Unit/Paper Subject Code

Nos.

L Cr P / T TP TW P/V T

4

lectu

res

Per

Wee

k

(1

lectu

re-

2hou

rs)

50 50 100

For Regular students

Semester

IV

Critical Methodology and

Skill development for

Research and Internship.

401008 4 4 50 50 100

Semester

IV

Film adaptations of Novels 401006 4 50 50 100

Semester

IV

Research Component

401777 4 50 50 100

Semester

IV

Internship 401999 8 200

Total 20 500

Semester

IV

For Distance Students

Critical Methodology and skill

development for research and

internship

401008

Semester

IV

Novels and Short Stories by

Indian Writers in English

translation.

4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

Semester

IV

Any one of the following clusters

E (two papers)

OR

F (two papers)

Cluster E

American Literature

1E Introduction to American Literature 401411 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

2E Multicultural literatures from

America

401412 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

Cluster F

Canadian Literature

1F The Concept of Canadian Identity 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

2F Canadian Modernist and Post-

Modernist Writing

4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

Semester

IV

Any one of the following clusters-

G (two papers)

OR

H (two papers)

1.5

hours

50 50

Cluster G

1G

Women's Articulation and

Patriarchal Projection

401309 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

2G Innovative Forms in Women's

Narratives

401310 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100

Cluster H

1H Children’s Literature 4 4 1.5

hours

50 50 100



Work - marks,




texts)


Semester I

Subject Code: 101001

Title: Modern Theory and Criticism

Credits: 4

Objective:

i) To students shall be able to examine significant critical theories which

influenced and transformed literary studies

Sr.

No.

Topic and Details No. of

Lectures

assigned

Weightage

in %

1 i) Ferdinand de Saussure

from Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader,

ed. by David Lodge, Longman: 1988

ii) Jacques Derrida

Structure, Sign and Play in the Discourse of the

Human Sciences.

From Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader,


9 25

2 Michel Foucault

What is an Author?

From Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader,


7 25

3 Edward Said:

Selections from Orientalism,

Vintage Books, New York 1979

7 25

4 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak:

Can the Subaltern Speak?

From Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts, Vol.

IV ed. by Diana Brydon. Routledge, London and

New York,2000

6 25

Recommended Readings:

1. Hudson, William Henry. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. New Delhi: Atlantic,

2007.

2. Nagarajan M. S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History.

Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2006.

3. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New

Delhi:Viva Books, 2008

4. Adams, Hazard. Critical Theory Since Plato. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,

1971.

5. Abrams, M. H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. (8th Edition) New Delhi: Akash Press, 2007.

6. Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University

Press,2001.

7. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. New

Delhi:Viva Books, 2008.

8. Fowler, Roger. Ed. A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms. Rev. ed. London: Routledge

&Kegan Paul, 1987.

9. Habib, M. A. R. A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. London:

Blackwell, 2005.

10. Harmon, William; Holman, C. Hugh. A Handbook to Literature. 7th ed. Upper Saddle

River,N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1996.

11. Hall, Donald E. Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced

12. Application. Boston: Houghton, 2001.

13. Jefferson, Anne. and D. Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative

Introduction. London: Batsford, 1986.

14. Keesey, Donald. Contexts for Criticism. 4th Ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2003.

15. Lentriccia, Frank. After the New Criticism. Chicago: Chicago UP, 1980.

16. Lodge, David (Ed.) Twentieth Century Literary Criticism. London: Longman, 1972.

17. Murfin, Ross and Ray, Supryia M. The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms.

Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's, 2003.

18. Nagarajan M. S. English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introductory History.

Hyderabad: Orient Black Swan, 2006.

19. Natoli, Joseph, ed. Tracing Literary Theory. Chicago: University of Illinois P, 1987.

20. Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson. A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary

Theory. 3rd Ed. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1993.

21. Wolfreys, Julian. ed. Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary . Edinburgh:

Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Semester I

Any one of the following four papers


Title: Postmodernism and Critical Theory

Credits: 4

Objective: i) to introduce students varieties of critical responses to Postmodernism

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Jean Francois Lyotard ‘The Postmodern

Condition: A Report on Knowledge’.

25

2 Jurgen Habermas

Selections from 'Modernity an incomplete

Project'

in The Anti Aesthetic

ed by Hal Foster

25

3 Fredric Jameson

'The Politics of theory: Ideological Positions in

the Postmodernism debate'

in Modern Criticism and Theory

ed by David Lodge.

25

4 Seyla Benhabib

‘Feminism and Postmodernism

in Feminist Contentions- A Philosophical

Exchange.’

ed by Seyla BenHabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla

Cornell and Nancy Fraser.

25

Semester I


Title: Critical Theory from the Global South

Credits: 4

Objective: i) To introduce students to the seminal literary theories from the global

south.

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Frantz Fanon

Selections from ‘The Wretched of the Earth’.

Grove Press.

7 25

2 i) Chinua Achebe

Selections from ‘Hopes and Impediments’(1965-

1967) Selected Essays' Heinneman; London

ii) Ngugi Wa Thiongo ‘Decolonising the Mind’

in The Politics of Language in Africa

8 25

3 Partha Chatterjee

Selections from Nation and its Fragments

,Verso

25

4 Trin T Minha

Selections from Woman, Native, Other: Writing

Postcoloniality and Feminism. Bloomington,

Indiana, Indiana University Press

25

Semester I


Title: Modern Feminist Theory and Criticism

Credits: 4

Objective: i) To introduce students to varieties of feminist criticism from across the globe.

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Virginia Woolf

Selections from ‘A Room of One’s Own’.

7 25

2 Annette Kolodny

'Dancing through the Minefield: Some

Observations on the Theory, Practice,and

Politics of a Feminist Literary Criticism'

in Feminisms:

ed by Robin r. Warhol and Diane Price

Herndl.

8 25

3 Chandra Talpade Mohanty ‘ Under Western

Eyes: Feminist Scholarships and Colonial

Discourses in Third World Women and the

Politics of Feminism, Bloomington, Indiana,

Indiana University Press.

8 25

4 Sandra Harding ‘Is there a Feminist Method?’

in Feminism and Methodology, Bloomington:

Indiana University Press.

7 25

Recommended Readings

1. Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism (New Delhi, Kali for Women,

2003).

2. Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex,( New York, Knopf, 1953).

3. Donovan, Josephine (ed)Feminist Literary Criticism (Lexington: University Press of

Kentucky,1975)

4. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies.(London:

Routledge.)

5. Moi, Toril. Sexual/Textual Politics. (London: Routledge, 1985).

6. Nussbaum, Martha (2000) Sex and Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.

7. Braidotti,Rosi(1994) Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Difference Contemporary

Feminist Theory. Columbia: Columbia University Press.

8. Walby, Susan.(2011) The Future Of Feminism . polity.

9. Warhol Robin and Diane price Herndl Feminisms (1991) NewBrunswick, New Jersey:

Rutgers University Press.

10. Wollestencraft, Mary (1992) A Vindication of the Rights of Women. London. Penguin.

Semester I


Title: Marxist Critical Thought

Credits: 4

Objective: i) To introduce students to the seminal critical theories of twentieth

century Marxist thinkers which has influenced and shaped literary criticism.

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Louis Althusser ‘Ideology and Ideological State

Apparatus: Notes towards an investigation.’(

Transl. by Ben Brewster) Monthly Review

Press.

8 25

2 A Gramsci

Selections from Prison Notebooks

Joseph A Buttigieg (ed) Columbia University

Press.

8 25

3 Terry Eagleton

Selection from ‘Marxism and Literature’

Routledge Classics.

7 25

4 Aijaz Ahmad

‘Jameson’s Rhetoric of the otherness and the

National Allegory’

In In Theory: Theories Nations Literatures,

Verso.

7 25

Semester I


Title: Genre Paper: Drama

Credits: 4

Objective:

i) to introduce students to some of the outstanding plays and significant critical

theory on drama and theater

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Bharta’s Natyashastra- “Bharatmuni on ‘Natya’

and ‘Rasa’: Aesthetics of

Dramatic Experience from the

Natyashatra”

from Indian Literary Theory: Theory and

Interpretation. Ed. G. N. Devy.

And

12 25

Constantin Stanislavski

Selections from ‘An Actor Prepares’.

Chapters I- The First Test

II-When Acting is an Art

III-Action and

IX-Emotion Memory

2 William Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale 6 25

3

Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle 6 25

4 Samuel Beckett: Endgame 6 25


1. Bratton, J. S. (2003) New Readings in Theatre History: Theatre and Performance Theory.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2. Raghavan V. and Nagendra (ed.)(1970) An Introduction to Indian Poetics. Madras:

MacMillan.

3. Esslin Martin, The Theatre of the Absurd. (1965) Hammondsworth: Penguin.

4. Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary.(1965) translated by Boleslaw Taborski

,London: Metheun.

5. Fortier, Mark. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction.(2002) Routledge

6. Carlson,Marvin. Theories of the Theatre:A Historical and Critical Survey from the Greeks

to the Present.

7. Krasner, David. Theatre in Theory 1900-2000 An Anthology.

8. Brandt, George W. Modern Theories of Drama. OUP.

Semester I


Title: Representation of Women in Dramatic Texts

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) To critically examine the representation of women by both male and female

dramatists in drama

Sr.

No.

Topic and Details No. of Lectures

assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Medea: Euripides 8 25

2 Rudali: (Play) Usha Ganguli and

Mahasweta Devi.

Seagull press 7

25

3 Antigone: Jean Anouilh 8 25

4 Pygmalion: George Bernard Shaw 7 25



2. Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the

Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination,1979.

3. Blondell, R., et al. (Ed.). (1999). Women on the edge: four plays by Euripides. New York,

NY: Routledge.

4. Chakravorty Spivak, Gayatri. ‘Feminism and Critical Theory’. Modern Criticism and

Theory. David Lodge(ed.). Pearson Education(Singapore) Pte. Ltd.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Gilbert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Gubar

Semester I


Title: Modern Drama in India

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) Students to the variety of texts in India and

ii) To critically analyse the texts

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Charandas Chor: Habib Tanveer 7 25

2 Jokumaraswamy : Chandrashekhara

Kambara 8 25

3 Nagamandala : Girish Karnad 7 25

4 Mahanirvan: Satish Alekar 8 25


1. Reddy, K.V and R.K. Dhawan (2004) Flowering of Indian Drama: Growth &

Development.

2. Pandey, A.P (ed)(2011) New Horizons in Indian English Drama. Kanpur: Bhasker

Publishers.

3. Gokhale Shanta (2000) Playwright at the Centre:Marathi Drama from 1843 to the

Present.. New Delhi: OUP.

4. Dharwadkar Aparna (2008) Drama, Theory, and Urban Performance in India since 1947.

New Delhi: OUP.

5. Lal Ananda (ed)(2011) The Oxford Companion to Indian Theatre. New Delhi: OUP

(2004).

6. Bhatia Nandi(Ed) Modern Indian Theatre, OUP.

Semester I


Title: Drama from the Global South

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) To introduce students to some of the significant plays from the global south.

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Athol Fugard: The Blood Knot 8 25

2 Harvest:-Manjula Padmanabhan

7 25

3 Aime Cesaire :A Tempest 7 25

4 Ama Ata Aidoo: Anowa 8 25

Semester I


Title: Adaptation of Shakespeare in Cinema.

(for Regular Students)

Credits: 4

Objectives: i)to introduce students to an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Shakespeare.

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1

‘From play-script to screen play.’ By

Russel Jackson and

‘Looking at Shakespeare’s women on film’

Carol Chillinton Rutter.

from

Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on

Films. Ed by Russell Jackson 7 25

2 Macbeth adaptations;

Throne of Blood,

Director: Akira Kurosawa

with reference to

Maqbool

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj 8 25

3 Hamlet adaptations;

Director Grigori Kozintsev

and Iosif Shapiro And

Director Kenneth Branagh. 8 25

4 As You Like It

Director: Christine Edzard 6 25


1. Hutcheon Linda. A Theory of Adaptation.(2006). NewYork: Routledge.

2. Hindle Maurice. Studying Shakespeare in Film.(2007) Hampshire New York: Palgrave

Macmillan.

3. Jackson,Russel(ed),The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare On Film Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.

4. Hatchuel, Sarah. Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen.(2004) Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

5. Shaunessy,Robert,ed.(1998)Shakespeare on Films New Casebooks’ series. London:

Houndmills.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000041/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishal_Bhardwaj

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Kozintsev

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iosif_Shapiro&action=edit&redlink=1

6. Literature/Film Quaterly,20,4(1992) (issue on film and television)

7. Stam, Robert and Raengo, Alessandra,(eds)(2005) Literature and Film: A guide to the

theory and practice of Film adaptation. Oxford: Blackwell.

Semester I


Title: Re-Reading Canonical Drama

(for Distance Learning Students)

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i)To enable students to analyse canonical dramatic texts in the light of contemporary

interpretation.

ii)To study retelling of well-known dramatic texts

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage in

%

1 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead:

Tom Stoppard. 7 25

2 Kanchana Sita: C.N.Sreekantan Nair and

Sarah Joseph OUP 2005 8 25

3 Lear: Edward Bond 7 25

4 The Merchant :Arnold Wesker 8 25


1. Kott, Jan. Shakespeare our Contemporary. Bristol: Methuen & Co. Ltd,1986.

2. Leeming, Glenda. “Articulacy and Awareness: The Modulation of Familiar Themes in

Wesker’s plays of the 70s.” Contemporary English Drama. Ed. C.W.E. Bigsby. New York:

Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1981.

3. Marowitz, Charles. Recycling Shakespeare. Hampshire: Macmillan Education Ltd, 1991.

4. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605279/index.pdf

5. Midgley, Graham. “The Merchant of Venice: A Reconsideration” in

6. Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice ed. John Wilders,1969.

7. Wilcher, Robert. Understanding Arnold Wesker. South Carolina: University of South

Carolina, 1991.

8. Yaffe, Martin D. Shylock and the Jewish Question. London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1997.

9. Hutcheon, Linda. A theory of Adaptation. Routledge, New York, 2013

10. Stephen Greenbatt (general editor). The Norton Shakespearean, W W Norton New York.

1997.

11. Kott Jan ShakespeareanContemporary. Bristol, Metheun and Co.tid, 1986

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605279/index.pdf

12. Patrick, Bethanne "'Neither prequel, nor sequel, it's parallel novel'". Washington Post.

Retrieved 29 November 2013.

13. Cellier-Smart, Catherine. "Parallel Novels". West Milford Township Library. Retrieved 24

March 2014.

14. Irene H. Chayes Revisionist Literary Criticism

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/revisionist-literary-criticism/

http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/neither-prequel-nor-sequel-its-parallel-novel

http://www.wmtl.org/content/parallel-novels

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/pods-author/irene-chayes

Semester II


Title: Research Methodology

(For regular Students)

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To learn about research and different research methodologies used in the ambit of Literature

and Language Studies.

ii) To be able to apply the methodologies in the students own research.

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage in

%

1 Definition and types of Research

Literary Research

Language Research

7 25

2 Literature Survey 7 25

3 Critical methodologies 8 25

4 Preparing and presenting a Research

Proposal

8 25

Recommended Reading:

1. Abdul Rahim, F. (2005) Thesis Writing : A Manual for Researchers . New Delhi : New

Age International)

2. Gibaldi, Joseph (6th edn. 2003)MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York

:MLA Association.

3. Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens (4th edn. 1998) A Handbook to Literary Research. London

: Routledge & Open University

4. Miller, R. H. (1995) Handbook of Literary Research, Methuen. Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmiilan.

5. Wesker, Gina.(2nd edition,2008) The Postgraduate Research Handbook

6. Lenburg, Jeff (2007), Guide to Research, Viva Books

7. Harner, James L. (2002) Literary Research Guide : An Annotated Listing of Reference

Sources in English Literary Studies. New York : MLA of America

8. Bateson, F. W. (1972) The Scholar Critic : An Introduction to Literary Research. London :

Routledge

9. Adam Sirjohn (2004) Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques. Delhi : New Age

International Ltd.

10. Calvary, R. & Nayak V. K. (2005) Research Methodology. New Delhi: S. Chand.

11. Rengachari,S. & Rengachari,Sulochna (eds.). Research Methodology for English

Literature (2004). Bareilly : Prakash Book Depot.

12. Seliger (2001), Second Language Research Methods, Oxford University

13. Sinha, M.P. - Research Methods in English

14. Winkler, Anthony C. & Accuen, Jo Roy (2003), Writing the Research Paper, Thomson

Heinle

15. Brown, James Dean (2006), Understanding Research in Second Language Learning, New

York: Cambridge University Press

Semester II

Any one of the following clusters

Cluster A-1A and 2A (two units/papers)

OR

Cluster B-1B and 2 B (two units/papers)

Cluster A

1A

Subject Code: 201151 Title Post-Colonial Theory and Practice: Indian Perspectives

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i)To introduce students to significant ideas and theories that have emerged from

India which have questioned and critiqued political and cultural colonialisms

ii)To study representative texts which explore issues of the truncated identity,

nationhood and the collective past of colonized subjects

Sr. No. Topic and Details No. of Lectures assigned Weigtage in %

1 ‘Literary Theory and Third World

Literature’

From

Aijaz Ahmad : In Theory (Selections)*

8 25

2* Rabindranath Tagore: Gora. Translated

by Sujit Mukherjee 7 25

3 AmitavGhosh: ShadowLines 8 25

4 Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things

7 25


1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (1989). Empire Writes Back: Theory and

Practice in Post Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge

2. Subaltern Studies Volumes 1-8. Series Editor: Ranajit Guha

3. Bhabha, H. ed (1990) Nation and Narration. London: Routledge

4. Chatterjee, Partha (1986). Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative

Discourse

5. Devi, G N. 1992 After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary Criticism.

Hyderabad: Blackswan

6. Mukherjee, Meenakshi (2000). The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian Writing in

English. New Delhi: Oxford OP.

7. Spivak, G. C. (1985) ‘Three Women’s Text and A Critique of Imperialism.’ Critical

Inquiry 12(1) pg 43-61

8. Said, E. (2004) Culture and Imperialism (London: Vintage)

9. Nandy, A. (1987) Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of Awareness

(London: Oxford University Press)

10. Viswanathan, G. (1989) Masks of Conquest: Literary Studies and the British Rule in India.

New York: Columbia University Press

Semester II

2A


Title: Post-Colonial Voices Credits: 4

Objectives:

i)To introduce students to significant texts that have emerged from third world

nations which have questioned and critiqued political and cultural colonialisms

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 J.M. Coetzee: Foe 8

25

2 Michele Cliff: No Telephone to Heaven 7

25

3 Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred

Years of Solitude 8 25

4 Earl Lovelace: Salt

7 25


1. Achebe, C. (1988) Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987. London:

Heinemann

2. Anderson, B (1989). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of

Nationalism. London and New York: Verso

3. Brennan, T (1990). ‘National Longing for Form’ in Bhabha (ed) Nation and Narration.

London: Routledge

4. Fanon, F. Wretched of the Earth, trans Constance Farrington. Harmondsworth: Penguin

5. Farah, N. (1970) From a Crooked Rib, London: Heinamann

6. Hooks, bell (1989). ‘On Self Recovery’ in Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking

Black. Boston: South End Press

7. Memmi, A. (1965) The Colonizer and the Colonized. New York: Orion

8. Ngugi, wa Thiong’o (1981) Decolonizing the Mind: the Politics of Language in African

Literature. London: James Curry

9. Soyinka, W. (1976) Myth, Literature and the African World. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press

Semester II

Cluster B

1B


Title; Literatures of Diaspora Theory and Practice Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To study Diaspora as a socio-cultural category as opposed ethic minority.

ii) to examine the shift from nationally based concepts of individuals and groups to pan ethnic

identity

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 In Diaspora; Theories ,Histories, Texts

Edited by. Makarand Paranjpe 8 25

2 Selections from the poems Vikram Seth, A.K.Ramanujan,

Agha Shahid Ali, Meena Alexander

Sujata Bhatt.

8

25

3 Monica Ali: Brick Lane 7 25

4 Michael Ondaatje: Running in the Family 7 25


1. Eds. Ashcroft, Bill, Griffiths Gareth, Tiffin Helen. London: Routledge, 2006. pp. 443-

446.

2. Clifford, James. "Diasporas",The Post-Colonial Studies Reader,2nded.Eds. Ashcroft,

Bill,

3. Griffiths Gareth, Tiffin Helen. London: Routledge, 2006. pp 451-454.

4. Jain, Jasbir. "The New Parochialism: Homeland in the Writing of The Diaspora".

InDiaspora: Theories, Histories, Texts. Ed. Makarand Paranjape, New Delhi: Indialog

Publication Pvt. Ltd, 2001. pp.79-81.

5. Theories, Histories, Texts. Ed. MakarandParanjape, New Delhi: Indialog Publication

Pvt.Ltd.

6. King, Bruce. "The Diaspora: Agha Shahid Ali‟ s Tricultural Nostalgia". Modern

Indian Poetry in

7. English, New Delhi

8. Mishra Vijay: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary, Routledge, 2007.

9. Brah, Avtar."Thinking through the Concept of Diaspora". The Post-Colonial Studies

Reader.2nd: Oxford University Press, 2001.

10. Mishra, Vijay. "Diaspora and the Impossible Art of Mourning". In Diaspora:Theories

Histories, Texts. Ed. Makarand Paranjape. New Delhi: India Log Publications Pvt.

Ltd, 2001. pp. 24-51

11. Texts, Issues: Essays on Indian Literature. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2003.

Semester II

2B


Title: Indian Literary Diaspora Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To examine the effect of geographical location/dislocation and cultural hybridity on literary

writing by Indian Diasporic writers

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Ramabai Espinet: The Swinging Bridge. 8

25

2 Selections from Shakti’s Words edited by

Griffith 7

25

3 Kiran Desai: The Inheritance of Loss 8 25

4 Jhumpa Lahiri: The Namesake 7 25


1. Appadurai, Arjun. 1996 Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

2. Bhabha, Homi 1994. Location of Culture. Routledge

3. Ghosh, Amitav. 2002 The Imam and the Indian. Essays. New Delhi: Ravi Dayal.

4. Mishra, Vijay. 2007 The literature of the Indian diaspora: theorizing the diasporic

imaginary. London ; New York : Routledge.

5. Radhakrishnan, R. 1996 Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location. University

of Minnesota Press

6. Rushdie, Salman. 1992 Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991. London:

Granta.

7. Said, Edward W. 2001 The World, the Text, and the Critic; After the Last Sky; Culture and

Imperialism (‘the Voyage In’); Representations of the Intellectual; Reflections on Exile

(1984), in Reflections on Exile and Other Literary and Cultural Essays, London, Granta

Books.

8. Spivak, Gayatri. "Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World." Textual

Practice 10.2 (1996): 245-269; also in Amitava Kumar, ed., Class Issues: Pedagogy,

Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere, pp. 87-116. New York & London: New York

University Press, 1997. 87-116.

9. Espinet, Ramabai. “An Interview with Ramabai Espinet.” Interview by Elaine Savory. In

Writers of the Caribbean Diaspora: Shifting Homelands, Travelling Identities. New

Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 2008, 257-274.

10. Espinet, Ramabai. “Ramabai Espinet.” Interview by Kwame Dawes. In Talk Yuh Talk:

Interviews with Anglophone Caribbean Poets. Charlottesville: University Press of

Virginia, 2001, 108-123.

11. Mathur, Charu. “A Narrative of Self-Reclamation: Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging

Bridge”. In Literary Constructs of the Self: Socio-Cultural Contexts, ed. Santosh Gupta

and Mini Nanda. Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2010, 170-178.

12. Sarbadhikary, Krishna. “Contesting Identities, Claiming Spaces: Ramabai Espinet.” In

Surviving the Fracture: Writers of the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora. New Delhi: Creative

Books, 2007, 204-238.

Semester II

Any one of the following Clusters

Cluster C-1C and 2 C (two papers)

OR

Cluster D-1D and 2 D (two papers)

Cluster C

1C


Title: Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning and Approaches to

Syllabus Design

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) to acquaint students with the current theories in the field of language acquisition and

learning and to familiarize them with the concepts of first language acquisition, and second

language acquisition learning in the Indian context.

ii) to develop an understanding of the process of syllabus design in second language teaching

and to familiarize students with the different types of language teaching syllabi with

special focus on the communicative syllabus.

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weightage

in %

1 Theories of language acquisition

particularly behaviourism and cognitivism,

Notions of linguistics competence and

performance

Theories of language acquisition

Acquisition vs. Learning

8 25

2 Language Acquisition in children,

Teaching and learning English as a 2nd

language in the Indian context, The

concept of the good language learner.

7 25

3 Syllabus vs. Curriculum , Product vs.

Process

Structural, Situational, Notional-

Functional Syllabus

8 25

4 Procedural Syllabus ,Communicative

Syllabus design and implementation

7 25


1. Agnihotri, R.K. & A.L.Khanna. 1994. Second Language Acquisition: Socio-Cultural and

Linguistic Aspects of English in India. New Delhi: Sage

2. Alderson, J.C. & Hughes, Arthur (eds.). 1981. Issues in Language Testing. ELT

Documents 111. The British Council.

3. Brown, G. & Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University Press.

4. Carter, R. & D. Nunan. 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to Speakers of

other Languages. Cambridge University Press.

5. Ellis, R. 1985. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. London: Oxford University

Press.

6. Ellis, R. 1990. Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Learning in the Classroom.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

7. Hatch, E.M. 1977. Second Language Acquisition. New York: Newbury House

8. Heaton, J.B. 1975.Studying in English: A Practical Approach to Study Skills in English

as a Second Language . London : Longman

9. Holliday, A. 1994.Appropriate Methodology and Social Context. Cambridge University

Press

10. Hutchingson, Tom and Alan Waters, 1987. English for Specific Purposes : A Learner

Centred Approach. Cambridge University Press

11. Ingram, D. 1989. First Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

12. Krashen, S. 1982. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.

Oxford, New York: Pergamon

13. Nunan, David. 1989. Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge

University Press.

14. Pride, J.B.( ed) .1979.Sociolinguistic Aspects of Learning and Teaching Oxford

University Press.

15. Richards, Jack & & Ted Rodgers. 2001. Approaches and Methods in Language

Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

16. Richards, Jack C. 1972. An Introduction to Error Analysis. London: Longman.

17. Ritchie, W. & T. Bhatia (eds.). 1996. Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. New

York: Academic Press.

18. . Stern , H.H. 1983.Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching . Oxford University

Press.

19. . Vygotsky.1972.Thought and Language. Massachusetts: MIT

20. . Widdowson ,H.G. 1978 Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford University Press.

21. . Widdowson, H.G, 1978. Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford University

Press.

22. Yalden, Janice. 1987. Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching. Cambridge

University Press.

Semester II

2C


Title: Language Teaching Skills and Issues in Language Testing

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) to provide students with essential knowledge and insights into the field

of foreign language teaching. It approaches Central language teaching

issues will be approached through a series of questions – what to

teach? Where to teach? And how to teach? These issues will be

related to the aims and contexts of language teaching, the participants,

and the materials, which may be utilized for teaching.

ii) to help students build on their knowledge of language testing by

providing theoretical input on issues Central to language testing and

opportunities to develop test items in specific areas.


Lectures

assigned

Weightage

in %

1

Grammar translation Method, Direct Method

Audio-lingual Method, other innovative methods

such as communicational method. Approaches to

teaching methodology

9 25

2 Material production and evaluation for the

teaching of LSRW. (Listening, Speaking, Reading,

Writing)

5 25

3 Criteria for a good test. : Reliability, concept of

proficiency in language, Validity, Feasibility

8 25

4 Criteria in Evaluation and making of tests; the

testing of grammar connective and structure

evaluation. , The testing of LSRW. (Listening,

Speaking, Reading, Writing)

7 25


1. Heaton, J.B. 1975.Studying in English: A Practical Approach to Study Skills in English

as a Second Language . London : Longman

2. Holliday, A. 1994.Appropriate Methodology and Social Context. Cambridge University

Press

3. Hutchingson, Tom and Alan Waters, 1987. English for Specific Purposes : A Learner

Centred Approach. Cambridge University Press

4. Ingram, D. 1989. First Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5. Krashen, S. 1982. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Learning.


6. Kroll, Barbara (ed.). 1992. Second Language Writing. Cambridge University Press

7. Leech, Geoffrey N. 1983. Principles of Pragmatics. Lond. & N.Y.: Longman

8. Mc.Aurthur, T.1983A Foundation Course for Language Teachers. Cambridge University

Press.

9. Nunan, David. 1989. Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom. Cambridge

University Press.

10. Prabhu, N.S. 1987. Second Language Pedagogy. Oxford University Press.

11. Pride, J.B.( ed) .1979.Sociolinguistic Aspects of Learning and Teaching Oxford

University Press.

12. Richards, Jack & & Ted Rodgers. 2001. Approaches and Methods in Language

Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

13. Richards, Jack C. 1972. An Introduction to Error Analysis. London: Longman.

14. Ritchie, W. & T. Bhatia (eds.). 1996. Handbook of Second Language Acquisition. New

York: Academic Press.

Semester II

Cluster D

1D


Title: Translation Studies: Theory and Practice

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) to introduce students to the intricacies of the theory and practice of translation and issues in

the politics of translations

Sr.No Topic and Details No. Of Lectures Weightage %

1 Selections from Translation

as Discovery: Sujit

Mukherjee 7

25

2 Selections from Translation

Studies: Susan Bassnet 8 25

3 Selections from Mouse or

Rat: Translation as

Negotiation: :Umberto Eco 8

25

4 Comparative Translation of

selections from Majha Pravas

By Vishnu Godse Bhatji.

Translators: Mrinal Pande,

Sukhmani Roy

Priya Adarkar and Shanta

Gokhale. 7

25

Recommended reading:

1. Venuti, Lawrence (1995) The Translators Invisibility: A History of Translation

New York: Routledge.

2. Bassnet, Susan.(1998) ed Constructing Cultures: Essays on Literary Translation.

Clarendon: Multilingual Matters.

3. Lefevre, Andre.(1992) Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary fame.

London : Routledge.

4. Ramanujan, A.K., .(1973)trans Speaking of Shiva. Harmondsworth: Penguin

Classics.

5. Bassnet ,Susan and Andre Lefevre, ed (1990) Translation, History and culture.

London and new York: Pinter Publication.

6. Niranjana, Tejaswini. (1995) Siting Translation: History , post-structuralism and the

colonial context. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan.

Semester II

2D


Title: Literatures in Translation

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i)to study the varieties of strategies used by translators in prose fiction to translate from the

source to the target language

Sr.

No

Topic and Details No. Of

Lectures

Weightage %

1 Selections from An Anthology of

Dalit Literature :Poisoned Bread

and Other Stories.

Translated byArjun Dangle 8

25

2 The Weave of my life: Urmila

Pawar(transl by Maya Pandit) 8

25

3 Begum Barve: Satish Alekar

(transl by Shanta Gokhale) 7

25

4 Smriti Chitre: Laxmibai Tilak

Translation by 7

25


1. Bijay Kumar Das A Handbook of Translation Studies Atlantic Publishers & Dist, 01-Jan-

2005

2. Niranjana, Tejaswini. 1992. Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the

Colonial Context. Berkeley: University of California Press.

3. Sujit Mukherjee, Translation as Discovery and Other Essays on Indian Literature in

English Translation, Hyderabad:Orient Longman 1999

4. Vinay Dharwadkar's AK Ramanujan's Theory and Practice of Translation' in Bassnett and

Trivedi eds. 1999

5. GN Devy, In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature, Madras: Macmillan

India, 1993

6. Dilip Chitre Says Tuka: Selected Poetry of Tukaram (Penguin Classics)

Semester II (For Distance Learning Students Only)

Paper 1 Genre Paper II: Novel (201004)

Marks: 100 (4 credits)

Objectives:

1. To introduce students to some of the important critical theories of the novel as

http://www.google.co.in/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bijay+Kumar+Das%22

well as seminal novels.

Sr.No. Topic and Details Marks

1

Mikhail Bakhtin ‘From the prehistory of novclistic disourse’

Dialogic Imagination : Four essays (1981) Translated by Caryl

Emerson and Michael Hoiquist. From Modern criticism and

Theory ed. David Lodge

25

2 Don Quixote : Cervantes 25

3 Midnight’s Children : Salman Rushdie 25

4 Madame Bovary : Gustave Flaubert New York, Modern

Library 25


1. Nicholls, Peter Modernism: A Literary Guide

2. Lewis, Pericles (2001) The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism

3. Chatman, Seymour (1978) Story and Discourse: Narrative

Structure in Fiction and Film

4. Mc Cabe, Allyssa and Carole Peterson (1991) Developing Narrative Structure

5. Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure

6. Mattingly, Cheryl (1998) Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots:

The Narrative Structure

7. Carr, David (1991) Time, Narrative and History.

8. Allen, Graham (2000) Intersexuality: The New Critical Idiom

9. Margaret Drabble: The Oxford Companion to English Literature

10. Ryan, Judith (2012) The Novel After Theory

11. Krieger, M. (1989) Reopening of Closure

12. Bowers, Maggie Ann (2004) Magic(al) Realism: The New Critical Idiom

Paper 2 The Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British Novel (201131)


Objectives:

1. To introduce students to the novel from as it emerged in England in the

eighteenth century

2. To enable students to critically understand the different forms of the novel

that emerged in the 19th Century.


1 Tristram Shandy : Lawrence Sterne. 25

2 Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronte 25

3 Great Expectations : Charles Dickens 25

4 Frankenstein : Mary Shelly 25




3. Chatman, Seymour (1978) Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction

and Film


5. Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure

6. Mattingly, Cheryl (1998) Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative

Structure


8. Allen, Graham (2000) Intertextuality: The New Critical Idiom





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Paper 3 Genre Paper III: Poetry (201005)


Objectives:

1. To introduce the students to seminal poetical works and critical theories from

across the world


1

Harold Bloom : Selections from The Anxiety of Influence And

Adrienne Rich ‘When we dead awaken: Writing as Re-vision’

From

Norton Critical Edition

Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Edited by Barbara .C. Gelpi and Albert Gelpi.

25

2 Paradise Lost : Milton 25

3 The Waste Land : T.S. Eliot 25

4 Selections from Norton Anthology Poetry by Women 25

Selected Poems from Norton Anthology Literature by Women: The traditions in

English by Gilbert and Gubar, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. List of the poem period wise:

Poem from Middle age and renaissance

1. Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603) into: 27

The Doubt of Future Foes

On Monsieur’s Departure

51

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury`

2. Mary worth (1587-1651/53) WROTH

When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove

Love, leave to urge

The weary traveller who, tired, sort

When last I saw thee, I did not thee see

Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun

Song (“Sweet, Let me enjoy the sight

Late in the forest I did Cupid see

My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest

Seventeenth and eighteenths Century poem:

3. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

The Prologue

The Author to Her Book

To My Dear and Loving Husband

4. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

The Willing Mistress

Love Armed

The Disappointment

On her Loving Two Equally

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, imagined More than Women

5. Phillips Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)

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On Being Brought From Africa To America

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Darthmouth

To s.m.a young African Painter, on Seeing His Work

To His Excellency, General Washington

Nineteenth century poem

6. Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

From The Grasmere Journals

Peaceful Our Valley, Fair and Green

7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

A True Dream

Grief

To George Sand: A Desire

To George Sand: A Recognition

The Cry of the Children

The Runway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point

8. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Turn of the century 20th Century:

9. Olive Schreiner (1885-1935) –Prose

Women and Labor Prose (Sex-parasitism)

10. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

The Other Side of a Mirror

The Devil’s Funeral

53

The White Woman

11. Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928)

The Farmer’s Bride

The Quiet House

Early 20th Century literature:

12. Amy Lowell (1874 – 1925)

The Letter

Venus Transeins

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Decade

A Critical Fable

13. Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946)

The gentle Lena Prose

Picasso

14. Mina Loy (1882-1996) – 1360

Gertrude Stein

Three Moments in Paris

One O’ clock at night

Omen of Victory

Photo of Pogrom

Feminist Manifesto prose

15. Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972)

Sojourn in the Whale

54

Those Various Scalpels

POETRY

To a Snail

An Egyptian pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

16. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

First Fig

Second Fig

17. Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

The Demon Lover - Prose

Later 20th century literature

18. Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Papa Love Baby

This Englishwomen

19. Dorothy livesay (1909) –

Green Rain

Eve

The Three Emily’s

The Children’s Letter

20. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

The Man-moth

Roosters

Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore

In the Waiting Room

55

21. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Boy with his Hair Cut Short

More of a Corpse Than a Women

Letter to the Front

22. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

The mother

The womanhood

We Real Cool

23. Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Her Kind

Housewife

Somewhere in Africa

Consorting with Angels

24. Adrienne Rich (1929-)

I Am in Danger –Sir

25. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963

The Disquieting muses

The colossus

Stings

Daddy

Medusa

26. Sharon Olds (1942-)

The Language of The Brag

Rite of Passage

56

Note: Students are required to read the actual poem from prescribed text.


1. Gardener, Helen. (1972) The Art of T.S Eliot. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.

2. Williamson, G. (1974) A Readers Guide to T.S Eliot. London: Thames and

Hudson.

3. Moody, A. ed. (1994) Cambridge Companion to T.S Eliot. Cambridge University

Press

4. Elliot, Bridget and Wallace, Jo Ann. (1994) Women Artists and Writers:

Modernist (Im) positioning. London and New York: Routledge.

5. Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan. (1986). The Female Imagination and the

Modernist Aesthetic. New Haven: Yale University Press

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Paper 4 The Bhakti Tradition and Twentieth Century Indian Poetry (201143)


Objectives:

1. To introduce to the tradition of Bhakti poetry in India and Modern Indian Poetry


1 Dilip Chitre : Says Tuka (Selections) and Speaking of Shiva :

A.K. Ramanujan (Selections) 25

2 Women Bhakti Poets: Meerabai, Bahinabai, Akka

Mahadevi(Selections) 25

3 Selected Early Modernist poetry(Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati,

Marathi and Malayalam) 25

4 Selected Post-1970 Modern Poetry (Bangla, Hindi, Gujarati,

Marathi and Malayalam) 25

From An Anthology of Marathi Poetry edited by Dilip Chitre and the Tree of Tongues

edited by E V Ramkrishnan

Note-1: The selected poems for study for Unit 1&2 are given below

Unit 1 - Says Tuka Translated and edited by Dilip Chitre

Introduction Page No.

Part One: Being a Poet 3-12, 18, 27

Part Three: Being a Devotee ............... 69-72, 75, 83-84,

92, 99-101

Part Four: Being in Turmoil ................ 115-123, 128

Part Five: Being in Time and Place...... 139-140, 144-146

Part Seven: Being a Saint..................... 181-187, 191- 194

Part Nine: Absolutely Being.............. 221-225, 230, 239

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From Speaking of Shiva: A. K. Ramanujan

Introduction .................. 1-37

Basavanna...................... 43-73

Allama Prabhu............... 125-150

Mahadeviyakka.............. 93-124

Note-2: The names of some of the significant poets of unit 3 and 4 are given below.

However students are encouraged also to refer language poets of the same period from

lists/collections/anthologies other than those given in the syllabus.

Unit-III: Early Modernist Poets (Before 1960)

Marathi

poetry

Gujarati Poetry Hindi Poetry English Poetry: Bangla

Poetry:

B.S. Mardhekar

Uma Shankar Joshi Agneya Dom Moraes Jibanananda

Das Vinda Karandikar Niranjan Bhagat

Nissim Ezekiel

Sadananda Rege Suresh Joshi

Unit-IV Post 1960 Poetry

Marathi

poetry

Gujarati Poetry Hindi Poetry English Poetry:

Dilip Chitre Labshankar

Thakar

Kedarsath Singh Kamala Das

Arun Kolatkar Sitanshy

Yashaschandra

Shrikant

Verma A.K. Ramanujan

Vasant Dahake Gulam

mohammed

Sheikh

Dhoomil

Arun Kolatkar

Bhalchandra

Nemade

Joseph Macwan Gagan Gil Dilip Chitre

Namdeo Saroop Dhruv Teji Grover Eunice de Souza

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Dhasal

Mallika Amar

Sheikh

Adil Jussawalla

Gieve Patel Arundhati Subramaniam


1. Quayum, M (ed) 2011 The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on Rabindranath

Tagore.

2. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan

3. Chitre, Dilip. 1967 An Anthology of Marathi Poetry: 1945-65. Bombay: Nirmala

Sadanand Publishers

4. Ramakrishnan, E.V (ed) 1995 Making it New: Modernism in Malayalam, Marathi

and Hindi Poetry. Shimla: IIAS

5. Seely, C. 1990 A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet

Jibanananda Das 1899-1954. Delaware: University of Delaware Press.

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Paper 5 Novels by Women Writers (201306)


Objectives:

1. To study the distinct ways which women writers represent their vision and

interpretation of the society and cultural practice in the novel form


1 Love, AAgain. Doris Lessing, Harper Collins, 1996 25

2 Bashai Tudu : Mahasweta Devi 25

3 Beloved : Toni Morrison 25

4 The Penelopiad : Margaret Atwood, Knopf, Canada 2005 25


1. Showalter, Elaine: A Literature of their Own: British Women Novelists from

Bronte to Lessing (1977) Princeton: Princeton University Press

The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature and Theory (1985)

Speaking of Gender (1989)

2. *Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty.

In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987

The Post-Colonial Critic:Interviews,Srategies,Dialogues (1990)

3. Christian, Barbara

Black Feminist Criticism: Perspectives on Black Women Writers (1985)

Elmsford, N.Y: Pergamon Press.

Black Women Novelists: The Development of Tradition, 1892-1976.(1980)

4. Jacobus, Mary. (1987) Reading Women: Essays in Feminist criticism.

New York: Columbia Press.

5. Greene, Gayle and Coppelia Kahn. ed (1985) Making a Difference: Feminist

Literary Criticism. London: Metheun.

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Semester III


Title: Genre Paper: Novel

Objectives: i)To introduce students to some of the important critical theories of the novel as well as

Semesterinal novels.

Sr.

No.

Topics and Details No. of

Lectures

assigned

Weightage

in %

1

Mikhail Bakhtin

‘From the prehistory of novelistic

discourse'

Dialogic Imagination: Four essays (1981)

Translated by Caryl Emerson and

Michael Holquist.

Also in

Modern criticism and Theory

ed. David Lodge

12 25

2

Don Quixote: Cervantes 6 25

3 Midnight's Children : Salman Rushdie 6 25

4 Madame Bovary: Gustave Flaubert

New York, Modern Library

6 25





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and Film


Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure


Structure







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Semester: III



Title: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth century British Novel

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) to introduce students to the novel form as it emerged in England in

the eighteenth century

ii) to enable students to critically understand the different forms of the novel that

emerged in the 19th Century.

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Tristram Shandy: Lawrence Sterne. 8 25

2 Wuthering Heights: Emily Bronte

7 25

3 Great Expectations: Charles Dickens 7 25

4 Frankenstein: Mary Shelley 8 25





and Film

4. McCabe, Allyssa and Carole Peterson (1991) Developing Narrative Structure

Holloway, John (1979) Narrative and Structure


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Structure







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Semester III


Title: The Modernist and Post-Modernist Novel.

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) to make students critically aware of the significant changes in the novel form in the

twentieth Century

ii)to understand and critically evaluate modernist and postmodernist novels

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage

in %

1 Mrs Dalloway: Virginia Woolf

7 25

2 The Trial- Franz Kafka 8 25

3 The Unbearable Lightness of Being:

Milan Kundera 7 25

4 Sexing the Cherry : Jeanette

Winterson 8 25


1. Nicholls, Peter (1991) Modernism: A Literary Guide. London.: Macmillan


3. Brooker, Peter, ed.(1991) Modernisms/Postmodernisms. London: Macmillan.

4. Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane, eds(1976) Modernism:1890-1930.

Harmondsworth: Penguin.

5. Childs, Peter. (2000) Modernisms London: Routledge.

6. Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar,(1988-1984) No Man’s Land: The Place of

the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. 3 vols.New Haven: Yale UP.

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7. Kundera Milan.() The Art of the Novel.

8. Waugh, Patricia.(1992) Practising Postmodernism :Reading Modernism .London:

Arnold.

9. Waugh, Patricia. ed (1992) Postmodernism: A Reader. London: Arnold.

10. Hutcheon, Linda. 1988 A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. London

and New York: Routledge

11. Poplawski, Paul.(2003) Encyclopedia of Literary Modernism. Westport,

Connecticut,London: Greenwood Press

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Semester III


Title: Novels from the Global South

Credits: 4

Objectives: i)To examine seminal novels from across the world

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 The Pick Up: Nadine Gordimer,

Penguin, 2001

7 25

2 Maps: Nurruddin Farah, Penguin 8 25

3 The Lost Steps: Alejo Carpentier

University of Minnesota, 1953 7 25

4 Snow: Orhan Pamuk (transl). Maureen

Freely, Faber& Faber 2004

8 25


1. Bruce King The New literatures: Cultural Nationalism in a Changing World.

Macmillan,

1987.

2. Brydon, Diana & Helen Tiffin (Eds). Decolonising Fictions Dangaroo. 1993.

3. Chris Tiffin & Alan Lawson. (eds.) Describing Empire: Postcolonialism and Textuality.

Routeledge, 1994.

4. Ernest Emenyonu Studies on the Nigerian Novel Heinemann, 1991.

5. Frantz Fanon Black Skins, White Masks. Pluto Press: London, 1986

6. Henry Louis Gates Race, Writing and Difference. Chicago: 1985.

7. Mirce Githae-Mugo Visions of Africa. Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978

8. Paul Gilroy. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Verso. 1994.

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9. Susheila Nasta. Motherlands: Women’s Writing from Africa, the Caribbean and South

Asia.Women’s Press, 1991.

10. Wole Soyinka. Myth, Literature and the African World. Oxford: 1991

Semester III


Title: Genre Paper: Poetry

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) to introduce the students to seminal poetical works and critical theories from across the world

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Harold Bloom: Selections from The

Anxiety of Influence

Preface, Introduction, Chapter I

and

Adrienne Rich

‘When we dead awaken: Writing as

Re-vision’

From

Norton Critical Edition

Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Edited by Barbara .C. Gelpi and Albert

Gelpi.

12 25

2 Paradise Lost: Milton

Books I , II and IX

6 25

3 The Waste Land: T.S.Eliot 6 25

4 Selections from Norton Anthology 6 25

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Poetry by Women*

Note: Names of some poets and their poems are given below. However

students may also choose and study other Women poets and poems.

Selections from Norton Anthology Poetry by Women: The Traditions in

English

By Gilbert and Gubar, W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Poems from Middle Age and Renaissance

1. Queen Elizabeth (1533-1603)

The Doubt of Future Foes

On Monsieur’s Departure

Speech to the Troops at Tilbury

2. Mary worth (1587-1651/53)

(“When night’s black mantle could most darkness prove”)

(“Love, leave to urge”)

(“The weary traveler who, tired, sort ”)

(“When last I saw thee, I did not thee see”)

(“Like to the Indians, scorched with the sun”)

Song (“Sweet, let me enjoy thy sight”)

(“Late in the forest I did Cupid see”)

(“My muse, now happy, lay thy self to rest”)

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Poems

3. Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672)

The Prologue

The Author to Her Book

To My Dear and Loving Husband

4. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)

The Willing Mistress

Love Armed

The Disappointment

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On her Loving Two Equally

To the Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love to Me, imagined More than

Women

5. Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784)

On Being Brought From Africa To America

To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Darthmouth

To S.M.A young African Painter, on Seeing His Works

To His Excellency, General Washinton

Nineteenth Century Poems

6. Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

From The Grasmere Journals

Peaceful Our Valley, Fair and Green

7. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

A True Dream

Grief

To George Sand: A Desire

To George Sand: A Recognition

The Cry of the Children

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point

8. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Turn of the century 20th century

9. Oliver Schreiner (1885-1935)

Woman and Labor

(Sex-parasitism)

10. Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1861-1907)

The Other Side of a Mirror

The Devil’s Funeral

The White Woman

Marriage

11. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928)

The Farmer’s Bride

The Quiet House

Early 20th century literature

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12. Amy Lowell (1874- 1925)

The Letter

Venus Transeins

Madonna of the Evening Flowers

Decade

A Critical Fable

13. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)

The Gentle Lena

Picasso

14. Mina Loy (1882-1996)

Gertrude Stein

Three Moments in Paris

One O’clock at Night

Omen of Victory

Photo of Pogrom

15. Marianne Moore (1887-1972)

Sojourn in the Whale

Those Various Scalpels

Poetry

To a Snail

An Egyptian pulled Glass Bottle in the Shape of a Fish

16. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

First Fig

Second Fig

17. Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973)

The Demon Lover

Late 20th century literature

18. Stevie Smith (1902-1971)

Papa Love Baby

This Englishwoman

19. Dorothy livesay (1909-)

Green Rain

Eve

The Three Emily’s

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The Children’s Letter

20. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979)

The Man-Moth

Roosters

Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore

In the waiting Room

21. Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980)

Boy with his Hair Cut short

More of a Corpse Than a Woman

Letter to the Front

22. Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

The mother

The womanhood

We Real Cool

23. Anne Sexton (1928-1974)

Her Kind

Housewife

Somewhere in Africa

Consorting with Angels

24. Maya Angelou (1928-)

I know why The Caged Bird Sings

25. Adrienne Rich (1929-)

“I Am in Danger –Sir-”

26. Sylvia Plath (1932-1963_

The Disquieting muses

The colossus

Stings

Daddy

Medusa

27. Caryl Churchill (1938-)

Top Girls

28. Sharon Olds (1942-)

The Language of The Brag

Rite of Passage

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1. Gardener, Helen. (1972) The Art of T.S Eliot. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.

2. Williamson, G. (1974) A Readers Guide to T.S Eliot. London: Thames and

Hudson.

3. Moody, A. ed. (1994) Cambridge Companion to T.S Eliot. Cambridge

University Press

4. Elliot, Bridget and Wallace, Jo Ann. (1994) Women Artists and Writers:

Modernist (Im)positioning. London and New York: Routledge.

5. Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan. (1986). The Female Imagination and the

Modernist Aesthetic. New Haven: Yale University Press

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Semester III



Title: Epics and Long Poems: Classical to the Modern

Credits: 4

Objectives: i)To introduce the student with the epics and narrative tradition of poetry and social and cultural

context of poetry

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Homer: Odyssey 7 25

2 Ramayana stories from Modern South

India: edited by Paula Richman

(selections)* 8 25

3 Chaucer : The Canterbury Tales

( Selections)

The Prologue

The Knights Tale

The Wife of Bath. 8 25

4 Selections from

Allen Ginsberg : Howl

Vikram Seth : The Golden Gate.

The Beatles- (selected lyrics.)

Bob Dylan- (selected lyrics.) 7 25

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Semester III


Title: Poetry from the Renaissance to the 19th Century

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To enhance students understanding of various traditions of poetry from the Renaissance to the

Victorian age in the Anglo American context

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Elizabethan Poetry (selections)* 7 25

2 Metaphysical Poetry (selections)

* 8 25

3 Romantic Poetry( selections) * 8 25

4 Victorian Poetry (selections) * 7 25

*from Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by Margaret Ferguson, Jon Stallworthy,

and Mary Jo Salter

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Semester III


Title: The Bhakti Tradition and 20th Century Indian Poetry

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To introduce students to the tradition of Bhakti poetry in India and Modern Indian Poetry

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Dilip Chitre: Says Tuka (Selections) and

Speaking of Shiva: A.K.Ramanujan

(Selections)* 8 25

2 Women Bhakti Poets: Meerabai, Bhahinabai,

Akka Mahadevi (selections)* 7 25

3 Selected Early Modernist poetry(Bangla,

From An Anthology of Marathi Poetry edited

by Dilip Chitre and the Tree of Tongues edited

by E V Ramkrishnan Hindi,Gujarati,Marathi

and Malayalam) 7

25

4 Selected Post-1970 Modern Poetry (Bangla,

Hindi,Gujarati,Marathi and Malayalam) From

An Anthology of Marathi Poetry edited by

Dilip Chitre and the Tree of Tongues edited by

E V Ramkrishnan

8

25

Note-1: The selected poems for study for Unit 1&2 are given below

Unit 1 .: From Says Tuka translated and edited by Dilip Chitre

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Introduction Page No.

Part One: Being a Poet....................... 3-12, 18, 27

Part Three: Being a Devotee ............... 69-72, 75, 83-84, 92, 99-101

Part Four: Being in Turmoil ................ 115-123, 128

Part Five: Being in Time and Place...... 139-140, 144-146

Part Seven: Being a Saint..................... 181-187, 191-194

Part Nine: Absolutely Being.............. 221-225, 230,239

From Speaking of Shiva edited byA. K. Ramanujan

Introduction .................. 1-37

Basavanna...................... 43-73

Allama Prabhu............... 125-150

Mahadeviyakka.............. 93-124

Note-2: The names of some of the significant poets of Units 3 and 4 are given

below. However students are encouraged to refer to language poets of the

same period from lists/collections/anthologies other than those given in the

syllabus.

Unit: 3

Early Modernist Poets (Before 1960)

Marathi Poetry:

B.S. Mardhekar

Vinda Karandikar

Sadananda Rege

Gujarati Poetry:

Uma Shankar Joshi

Niranjan Bhagat

Suresh Joshi

Hindi Poetry:

Agneya

English Poetry:

Dom Moraes

Nissim Ezekiel

Bangla Poetry:

Jibanananda Das

Buddhadev Bose

Sudhindranath Dutta.

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Unit 4:

(Post 1960) Modernist poetry

Marathi Poetry:

Dilip Chitre

Arun Kolatkar

Vasant Dahake

Bhalchandra Nemade

Namdeo Dhasal

Mallika Amar Sheikh

Gujarati Poetry:

Labshankar Thakar

Sitanshy Yashaschandra

Gulammohammed Sheikh

Joseph Macwan

Saroop Dhruv

Hindi Poetry:

Kedarsath Singh

Shrikant Verma

Dhoomil

Gagan Gil

Teji Grover

English Poetry:

Kamala Das

A.K. Ramanujan

Arun Kolatkar

Dilip Chitre

Eunice de Souza

Adil Jussawalla

Gieve Patel

Arundhati Subramaniam


1. Quayum, M (ed) 2011 The Poet and His World: Critical Essays on

Rabindranath Tagore. Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan

79

2. Chitre, Dilip. 1967 An Anthology of Marathi Poetry: 1945-65. Bombay:

Nirmala Sadanand Publishers

3. Ramakrishnan, E.V (ed) 1995 Making it New: Modernism in Malayalam,

Marathi and Hindi Poetry. Shimla: IIAS

4. Seely, C. 1990 A Poet Apart: A Literary Biography of the Bengali Poet

Jibanananda Das 1899-1954. Delaware: University of Delaware Press.

5. Das ,Sisir Kumar, History of Indian Literature 1911-1956, Sahitya

Akademi 1995.

6. “Manushi”January- June 1989 Nos. 50-51-52

7. KumKum Sangari, ‘Mirabai and the Spiritual Economy of Bhakti’ Vol -

XXV No. 27, July 07, 1990

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Semester III


Title: Modern Poetry: Anglo American and European

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) To Further students knowledge of the various traditions of Modern poetry

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage

in %

1 Early Modernist (Selections)* 7 25

2 Poetry from the Second World War to the

70’s (Selections) * 8 25

3 The Postmodern’s (Selections) * 8 25

5 European Modern (Selections) ** from

Penguin Modern European Poets series 7 25

*from Norton Anthology of Poetry edited by Margaret Ferguson, Jon

Stallworthy, and Mary Jo Salter, and The Norton Anthology of Modern and

Contemporary Poetry edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert

O’Clair.

**from 20th Century Poetry and Poetics edited by Gary Geddes. Oxford

University Press.

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Semester III


Title: Research Paper Credits: 04

Objectives:

i. to enable students to choose topics, conduct survey of Literature on the

chosen areas and develop research question.

ii. To enable students to select different methodologies, conceptual frameworks

and research perspectives and prepare a research proposal.

Sr no Topic/Unit Details No of lectures

assigned

Weightage in %

1 Survey of Literature 50%

2 Preparation of Research

Proposal

50%

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Semester III (For Distance Learning Students Only)

Paper-1 Research Methodology (301007)


Objectives:

1. To learn about research and different research methodologies used in the ambit

of Literature and Language Studies.

2. To be able to apply the methodologies in the students own research.


1

Definition and types of Research

Literary Research

Language Research

25

2 Literature Survey 25

3 Critical methodologies 25

4 Preparing and presenting a Research Proposal 25


1. Abdul Rahim, F. (2005), Thesis Writing : A Manual for Researchers (New

Delhi : New Age International)

2. Gibaldi, Joseph (6th edn. 2003), MLA Handbook for Writers of Research

Papers, New York :MLA Association

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3. Eliot, Simon and W. R. Owens (4th edn. 1998), A Handbook to Literary

Research, London : Routledge & Open University

4. Miller, R. H. (1995), Handbook of Literary Research, Methuen

5. Lenburg, Jeff (2007), Guide to Research, Viva Books

6. Harner, James L. (2002), Literary Research Guide : An Annotated Listing of

Reference Sources in English Literary Studies, New York : MLA of America

7. Gupta, R. K. (1971), American Literature Fundamentals of Research, ASRC

Hyderabad

8. Mishra, D. S. (1989), A Grammar of Literary Research, New Delhi : Harman

Publishing House

9. Rajannan, B. (1968), Fundamentals of Research, ASRC Hyderabad

10. Bateson, F. W. (1972), The Scholar Critic : An Introduction to Literary

Research, London : Routledge

11. Adam Sirjohn (2004), Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques, Delhi :

New Age International Ltd

12. Caivary, R. & Nayak V. K. (2005), Research Methodology, S. Chand

13. Kothari,C.R. (1985), Research Methodology: Methods & Techniques, Delhi :

New Age International Ltd

14. Litosseliti,Lia (2000), Using Focus Groups in Research, British Library

Cataloguing. Rahim, F. Abdul (1996), Thesis Writing-A Manual for

Researchers, New Delhi : New Age International Ltd

15. Rengachari,S. & Rengachari,Sulochna - Research Methodology for English

Literature, Bareilly :Prakash Book Depot

16. Seliger (2001), Second Language Research Methods, Oxford University

17. Sinha, M.P. - Research Methods in English

84

18. Winkler, Anthony C. & Accuen, Jo Roy (2003), Writing the Research Paper,

Thomson Heinle

19. Brown, James Dean (2006), Understanding Research in Second Language

Learning, New York: Cambridge University Press

85

Paper-2 Post-Colonial Theory and Practice: Indian Perspectives (301151)


Objectives:

1. To introduce students to significant ideas and theories that have emerged from

India which have questioned and critiqued political and cultural colonialisms

2. To study representative texts which explore issues of the truncated identity,

nationhood and the collective past of colonized subjects


1 ‘Literary Theory and Third World Literature’

From Aijaz Ahmad : In Theory(Selections)* 25

2 Rabindranath Tagore: Gora 25

3 AmitavGhosh: ShadowLines 25

4 Arundhati Roy: The God of Small Things 25


1. Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin (1989). Empire Writes Back:

Theory and Practice in Post Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge

2. Subaltern Studies Volumes 1-8. Series Editor: Ranajit Guha

3. Bhabha, H. ed (1990) Nation and Narration. London: Routledge

4. Chatterjee, Partha (1986). Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A

Derivative Discourse

5. Devi, G N. 1992 After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in Indian Literary

Criticism. Hyderabad: Blackswan

6. Mukherjee, Meenakshi (2000). The Perishable Empire: Essays on Indian

Writing in English. New Delhi: Oxford OP.

7. Spivak, G. C. (1985) ‘Three Women’s Text and A Critique of Imperialism.’

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Critical Inquiry 12(1) pg 43-61 Said, E. (2004) Culture and Imperialism

(London: Vintage)

8. Nandy, A. (1987) Traditions, Tyranny, and Utopias: Essays in the Politics of

Awareness (London: Oxford University Press)

9. Viswanathan, G. (1989) Masks of Conquest: Literary Studies and the British

Rule in India. New York: Columbia University Press

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Paper-3 Post-Colonial Voices (301152)


Objectives:

1. To introduce students to significant texts that have emerged from third world

nations which have questioned and critiqued political and cultural colonialisms


1 J.M. Coetzee: Foe 25

2 Michele Cliff: No Telephone to Heaven 25

3 Gabriel Garcia Marquez : One Hundred Years of Solitude 25

4 Earl Lovelace: Salt 25


1. Achebe, C. (1988) Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays 1965-1987.

London: Heinemann

2. Anderson, B (1989). Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and

Spread of Nationalism. London and New York: Verso

3. Brennan, T (1990). ‘National Longing for Form’ in Bhabha (ed) Nation and

Narration. London: Routledge

4. Fanon, F. Wretched of the Earth, trans Constance Farrington. Harmondsworth:

Penguin

5. Farah, N. (1970) From a Crooked Rib, London: Heinamann

6. Hooks, bell (1989). ‘On Self Recovery’ in Talking Back: Thinking Feminist,

Thinking Black. Boston: South End Press

7. Memmi, A. (1965) The Colonizer and the Colonized. New York: Orion

88

8. Ngugi, wa Thiong’o (1981) Decolonizing the Mind: the Politics of Language in

African Literature. London: James Curry

9. Soyinka, W. (1976) Myth, Literature and the African World. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press

89

Paper-4 Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning and Approaches

(301171)


Objectives:

1. To acquaint students with the current theories in the field of language

acquisition and learning and to familiarize them with the concepts of first

language acquisition, and second language acquisition learning in the Indian

context.

2. To develop an understanding of the process of syllabus design in second

language teaching and to familiarize students with the different types of

language teaching syllabi with special focus on the communicative syllabus.


1

Theories of language acquisition

particularly behaviorism and cognitivism, Notions of

linguistics competence and performance

Theories of language acquisition vs. Learning

25

2

Language Acquisition in children, Teaching and learning

English as a 2ndlanguage in the Indian context, The concept of

the good language learner.

25

3 Syllabus vs. Curriculum , Product vs. Process Structural,

Situational, Notional- Functional Syllabus 25

4 Procedural Syllabus ,Communicative Syllabus design and

implementation 25


1. Agnihotri, R.K. & A.L.Khanna. 1994. Second Language Acquisition: Socio-

Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of English in India. New Delhi: Sage

2. Alderson, J.C. & Hughes, Arthur (eds.). 1981. Issues in Language

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Testing. ELT Documents 111. The British Council.

3. Bachman, Lyle F. 1990. Fundamental Considerations in Language

Testing. Oxford University Press.

4. Brown, G. & Yule, G. 1983. Discourse Analysis. Cambridge University

Press.

5. Carter, R. & D. Nunan. 2001. The Cambridge Guide to Teaching English to

Speakers of other Languages. Cambridge University Press.

6. Ellis, R. 1985. Understanding Second Language Acquisition. London:

Oxford University Press.

7. Ellis, R. 1990. Instructed Second Language Acquisition: Learning in the

Classroom.

Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

8. Fletcher, p. & Garman, M. 1986. Language Acquisition. (Second Ed.).

Cambridge, U.K.:

9. Cambridge University Press. Freeman , Richard 1991. Mastering Study Skills

London : The Macmillan Press Ltd. Harmer, Jeremy. 1989. The Practice of

English Language Teaching. Lond. & N.Y.:Longman

10. Hatch, E.M. 1977. Second Language Acquisition. New York: Newbury House

11. Heaton, J.B. 1975.Studying in English: A Practical Approach to Study

Skills in English as a Second Language . London : Longman

12. Holliday, A. 1994.Appropriate Methodology and Social Context.

Cambridge University Press

13. Hutchingson, Tom and Alan Waters, 1987. English for Specific Purposes

: A Learner Centred Approach. Cambridge University Press

14. Ingram, D. 1989. First Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

15. Krashen, S. 1982. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language

Learning.


16. Kroll, Barbara (ed.). 1992. Second Language Writing. Cambridge University

91

Press


18. Mc.Aurthur, T.1983.A Foundation Course for Langauge Teachers. Cambridge

University Press

19. Nunan, David. 1989. Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom.



21. Pride, J.B.( ed) .1979.Sociolinguistic Aspects of Learning and Teaching


22. Richards, Jack & & Ted Rodgers. 2001. Approaches and Methods in

Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

23. Richards, Jack C. 1972. An Introduction to Error Analysis. London:

Longman.

24. Ritchie, W. & T. Bhatia (eds.). 1996. Handbook of Second Language

Acquisition. New York: Academic Press.

25. Spolsky, Bernard. 1989. Conditions for Second Language Learning. Oxford

University Press.

26. Stern, H.H. 1983.Fundamental Concepts of Language Teaching . Oxford

University Press.

27. Vygotsky.1972.Thought and Language. Massachusetts: MIT

28. Widdowson, H.G. 1978 Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford

University Press.

29. Widdowson, H.G, 1978. Teaching Language as Communication. Oxford

University Press.

30. Yalden, Janice. 1987. Principles of Course Design for Language Teaching.


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Paper-5 Language Teaching Skills and Issues in Language Testing (301172)


Objectives:

1. To provide students with essential knowledge and insights into the field of

foreign language teaching. It approaches Central language teaching issues will

be approached through a series of questions – what to teach? Where to teach?

And how to teach? These issues will be related to the aims and contexts of

language teaching, the participants, and the materials, which may be utilized for

teaching.

2. To help students build on their knowledge of language testing by providing

theoretical input on issues Central to language testing and opportunities to

develop test items in specific areas.


1

Grammar translation Method, Direct Method Audio-lingual

Method, other innovative methods such as communicational

method. Approaches to teaching methodology

25

2 Material production and evaluation for the teaching of

LSRW. (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing) 25

3 Criteria for a good test. : Reliability, concept of proficiency in

language, Validity, Feasibility 25

4

Criteria in Evaluation and making of tests; the testing of

grammar connective and structure evaluation. , The testing of

LSRW. (Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing

25


1. Heaton, J.B. 1975.Studying in English: A Practical Approach to Study Skills

in English as a Second Language. London : Longman

93

2. Holliday, A. 1994.Appropriate Methodology and Social Context. Cambridge

University Press

3. Hutchingson, Tom and Alan Waters, 1987. English for Specific Purposes : A

Learner Centred Approach. Cambridge University Press

4. Ingram, D. 1989. First Language Acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press.

5. Krashen, S. 1982. Second Language Acquisition and Second Language

Learning.

6. Oxford, New York: Pergamon

7. Kroll, Barbara (ed.). 1992. Second Language Writing. Cambridge University

Press


9. Mc.Aurthur, T.1983.A Foundation Course for Langauge Teachers.


10. Nunan, David. 1989. Designing Tasks for the Communicative Classroom.



12. Pride, J.B.( ed) .1979.Sociolinguistic Aspects of Learning and Teaching


13. Richards, Jack & & Ted Rodgers. 2001. Approaches and Methods in

Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press.

14. Richards, Jack C. 1972. An Introduction to Error Analysis. London:

Longman.

15. Ritchie, W. & T. Bhatia (eds.). 1996. Handbook of Second Language

Acquisition. New

16. York: Academic Press.

94

Semester IV

(Only for Regular students)


Title: Critical Methodology and Skill development for Research and

Internship.

Credits: 4

Objectives: On completion of this module students will be able

i) to organize, structure, analyze and write the dissertation.

ii) to acquire and utilize skills required for viva and internship.

Sr no Topic/Unit Details No of Lectures Weightage

1 Conceptual, analytical and

writing skills in Literature

and Language research.

Ethics in Research.

08 25%

2 Writing up: Developing the

framework, analysis of data

and writing of the

Dissertation.

08 25%

3 Preparing for viva voce, 08 25%

95

Presentations, conferences

and publishing.

4 Learning about Internship. 06 25%

Recommended Reading

1. Gibaldi, Joseph (6th edn. 2003), MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, New

York ,MLA Association

2. Williams, D (2005)The Essential Guide to Postgraduate Study. Thousands Oak:Sage.

3. Murray, R and Moore, S.(2006) The Handbook of Academic Writing, Buckingham:


4. Dunleavy, P (2003) Authoring a PhD, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

5. Murray, R.(2003) How to Write a Thesis, Buckingham: Open University Press.

Semester IV


Title: Film adaptations of Literature

(for Regular Students)

Credits: 4

Objectives: i) to study the transactions between word and image and the ways in which words and images

can be adapted and combined to create multi-layered meaning contexts in literature through

films.

ii) to have more expansive understanding of different media (literature and cinema) as they

intersect, inter-illuminate and collide.

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Theory selections from

Literature and Film: A Guide to Theory and

Practice of Adaptations.

Ed by Robert Stam.

8

25

2 The French Lieutenant's Woman

Director : Karel Reisz

8

25

3 Ghare Baire

Director: Satyajit Ray

7 25

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Reisz

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray

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4 The Hours

Director: Stephen Daldry

7 25


1. Stam, Robert and Alassandra Raengo (2005) Literature through Film: Realism, Magic

and the art of Adaptation Oxford :Blackwell.

2. Vincendeau, Ginette ed(2001) Film/Literature /heritage: A sight and sound Reader.

London: British Film Institute.

3. Thompson, Kristen (2003) Storytelling in film and television. Cambridge, MA:

Harvard University Press.

4. Seger,Linda.(1992) The Art of Adaptation: Turning fact and fiction into film.

New York: Henry Holt and Co.

5. Sidhwa, Bapsi.1999.”Watching my novel become her film.” .New York Times.5 Sept.,

Arts and Leisure:21

6. Mulvey, Laura. (1989) Visual and Other Pleasures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Daldry

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Semester IV


Title: Research Paper II Credits: 04

Objectives:

i) to enhance the students research skills and guide them in the preparing and

writing of dissertations.

Sr

no.

Topic/Unit Details Credits Marks

1 Dissertation 2 50

2 Viva/ Seminar 2 50

Total 04 100

Note: Area of Research to be chosen by the students in the third Semester.

98

Semester IV


Title: Internship

Credits: 6

Objectives:

i)to enable students to translate their theoretical and classroom learning into

practice.

ii)to enhance the students application skills in different working

environments.

Note: Any one of the following areas

1 Teaching

(as assistant to the teacher or assistant to the

lecturer)

High Schools Junior

College Recognised

Educational Institutional/

Organisations

2 Print Media / Visual Media

Publishing Industry.

Newspapers, Radio,

Magazines, Journals, e-

journals

3 Research assistants Publication houses,

Organisations, Media

Organisations, Government

99

Departments, Foreign

Council offices or High

Commissions, NGO’s,

Educational Institutions /

Department)

4 Performance and Visual Arts. Theatre and Cinema,

Television (as script

writing, assistant,

production field, research,

etc)

Semester IV

For Distance learning students.

Subject Code:

Title: Novels and Short Stories by Indian Writers in English translation.

Credits:4

Objectives: i) to study and critically analyse significant translated texts in English

from Indian Bhasha literatures

100

Recommended Reading

1. Bijay Kumar Das A Handbook of Translation Studies. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers &

Dist, 2005

2. Niranjana, Tejaswini. Siting Translation: History, Post-Structuralism and the Colonial

Context. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

3. Sujit Mukherjee, Translation as Discovery and Other Essays on Indian Literature in English

Translation. Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1999.

4. Vinay Dharwadkar. “AK Ramanujan's Theory and Practice of Translation” in Bassnett and

Trivedi eds. 1999.

5. GN Devy, In Another Tongue: Essays on Indian English Literature. Madras: Macmillan

India, 1993

Sr. No. Topic and Details No. of Lectures

assigned

Weigtage in %

1 Samskara by

U.R.Ananthmurthy Translated

by A.K. Ramanujan

07 25%

2 The Stepchild (Angaliyat)

By Joseph Macwan

Translated by Rita Kothari

07 25%

3 Legends of Khasak by O. V.

Vijayan Translated by O. V.

Vijayan

08 25%

4 Novellas

1. Parasu Pator’s Well by

Indira Goswami

Translated by Gayatri

Bhattacharyya

2. The Beloved Bullet by

James Dokhuma.

Translated by Margaret Ch

Zama.

From Fresh Fictions by North

East Writers Forum, Katha

Books

08 25%

http://www.google.co.in/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Bijay+Kumar+Das%22

101

6. Lefevre, Andre.(1992) Translation, rewriting and the manipulation of literary Fame. London

: Routledge.

7. Mukherjee, Meenakshi . Realism and Reality: The Novel and Society in India. New Delhi:

Oxford University Press, 1985.

Semester IV

(For Distance Learning students only)

1 Any one of the following Clusters:

Cluster E- 1Eand 2E (two papers)

OR

Cluster F- 1F and 2F (two papers)

Cluster E

1E

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2056637

http://www.jstor.org/stable/2056637

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Title: Introduction to American Literature

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) To introduce students to the development and expression of some

fundamental ideas, assumptions, myths and beliefs that influence the

construction of American identity

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtag

e in %

1 William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury 6 25

2 Tennessee Williams: A Street Car named Desire 6 25

3 Sam Shepard: Buried Child 6 25

4 Selections from The Norton Anthology of Modern

and Contemporary Poetry edited by Jahan

Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair

given below 6

25

Note: Names of some poets and their poems are given below. However

students may also choose and study other American poets and poems.

Selections from The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry

edited by Jahan Ramazani, Richard Ellmann, and Robert O’Clair

19th Century American Poetry

1) Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

A Letter (Pg 27 to 28)

The Snow Storm (Pg 32)

Hamatreya (Pg 33-Pg34)

Fable (Pg 34)

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Ode (Pg 35-37)

Give All to Love (Pg 37-38)

2) Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Dreams (Pg 61)

Fairy Land (Pg 62)

To Helen (Pg 63)

The Raven (Pg 67-69)

3) Walt Wihtman (1819-1892)

Song of Myself (Pg 83 to 131)

Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking (Pg 136-140)

When I heart the learn’d Astronomer (Pg 145)

Reconciliation (Pg 145)

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Pg 145)

A Noiseless Patient Spider (Pg 151)

4) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) All poems between Pg 163 and Pg 183

Success is counted Sweetest

Faith is a fine invention

Hopes is the thing with feathers

There’s a certain slant of light

I felt a funeral, in my brain

I’m Nobody, Who are you?

A bird came down the walk

This was Poet- is it that

I died for beauty – but was scarce

I heard a fly buzz- when I died

I am alive – I guess

I would not paint – a picture

The heart asked pleasure – first

I reckon – when I count at all

I like to see it lap the Miles

They shut me up in prose

I cannot live with you

Pain – has an element of blank

I dwell in possibility

Because I could not stop for death

My life has stood – a Loaded Gun

104

Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant

Go tell it – What a message

My life closed twice before it close

Modern American Poetry 1) Robert Frost

Mending Wall (Pg 699)

The Road not taken (Pg 701)

Birches (Pg 702)

Come In (Pg 708)

2) Amy Lowell

Patterns (Pg 711)

The Weather-Cock Points south (Pg 713)

3) W.H. Auden

Lullaby (Pg 844)

Musee des Beaux Arts (Pg 845)

In memory of W.B. Yeats (Pg 846)

The Shield of Achilles (Pg 850)

4) Langston Hughes

The weary blues (Pg 822)

Dream Variations (Pg 823)

Cross (Pg 824)

Song for a dark girl (Pg 824)

Harlem (Pg 824)

Theme for English B (Pg 825)

5) E.E. Cummings

All in green went my love riding (Pg 800)

Spring is like a perhaps hand (Pg 801)

Anyone lived in a how town (803)

6) Marianne Moore

Poetry (Pg 760)

The Fish (Pg 763)

105

The mind is an enchanting thing (Pg 766)

7) Ezra Pound

Potrait D’une Femme (Pg 746)

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A letter (Pg 750)

The Cantoos (Pg 754)

8) Wallace Stevens

The Emperor of Ice-cream (Pg 718)

Anecdote of the Jar (Pg 721)

Thirteen ways of looking at a black bird (Pg 722)

The idea of order at Key west (Pg 725)

9) Theodore Rothke

10) Gwendolyn Brooks

Kitchenette Building (Pg 904)

The Birth in a narrow room (Pg 904)

The rites for cousin Vit (Pg 904)

We real cool (Pg 905)

Boy breaking glass (Pg 905)

11) Adrienne Rich

Orion (Pg 1005)

Diving into the wreck (Pg 1006)

12) William Carlos Williams

The red wheelbarrow (729)

This is just to say (729)

A sort of a song (730 )

13)Isaac Rosenberg

Break of day in the trenches (793)

14)Louise Bogan

Medusa (810)

Juan’s song (811)

Song for the last act (811)

15)Hart crane

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16) Murel Rukeyser

Night feeding (879 )

Ballad of orange and grape (880)

17)John Berryman

A sympathy ,a welcome (885)

The dream songs (886)

I (huffy henry hid the day ) (886)

Life ,friends is boring . we must not say so (886)

There sat down,once ,a thing on henry’s heart (887)

Also I love him :me he’s done no wrong 9887)

An elegy for W.C.W, the lovely man (888)

At henry’s bier let some thing fall out well: (888)

18)A.R Ammons 19)Allen Ginsberg

howl (958)

part I (958)

james Merrill

20)John Ashbery

The painter (975)


1. Altieri, Charles F. Modern Poetry. Arlington Heights, IL: AHM Publishing Corporation,

1979.

2. Bain, Robert, ed. Southern Writers: A Biographical Dictionary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana

State

3. Univ. Press, 1979.

4. Contemporary Black American Fiction Writers. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,

c1995.

5. Gerstenberger, Donna and Hendrick, George. The American Novel, 2 vols. Chicago: The

Swallow Press, 1961-1970.

6. Greiner, Donald J., ed. American Poetry Since World War II, 2 vols. Detroit: Gale

Research Co.,1980.

107

7. Hassan, Ihab. Contemporary American Literature, 1945-1972: An Introduction. New

York:Ungar, 1973.

8. Hassan, Ihab. Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel.

Princeton, N. J: Princeton University Press, 1961.

9. Helterman, Jeffrey and Layman, Richard, ed. American Novelists Since World War II.

Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1980.

10. Henderson, Stephen, ed. Understanding the New Black Poetry. New York: William

Morrow,1973.

11. Hoffman, Daniel, ed. Harvard Guide to Contemporary Writing. Cambridge, Mass.:

Harvard University Press, 1979.

12. Holman, C. Hugh. The American Novel Through Henry James, 2nd ed. Arlington heights,

IL:AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979.

13. Kibler, Jr., James E., ed. American Novelists Since World War II, Second Series. Detroit:

Gale Research Co., 1980.

14. Kiernan, Robert F. American Writing since 1945: A Critical Survey. New York:

Frederick Ungar, 1983.

15. Lawrence, Shaffer. History of American Literature and Drama. New Delhi: Sarup, 2000.

16. Lewis, Allan. American Plays and Playwrights of the Contemporary Theatre. Rev. Ed.

New York: Crown, 1970.

17. Ludwig, Richard M. and Nault, Clifford A. Annals of American Literature, 1602-1983.

New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986.

18. MacNicholas, John, ed. Twentieth-Century American Dramatists, 2 vols. Detroit: Gale

Research Co., 1981.

19. Myerson, Joel, ed. The American Renaissance in New England. Detroit: Gale Research

Co.1978.

20. Myerson, Joel, ed. Antebellum Writers in New York and The South. Detroit: Gale

Research Co., 1978.

21. Parker, Patricia L. Early American Fiction: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984.

22. Rock, Roger O. The Native American in American Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood

Press, 1985.

23. Rood, Karen Lane, ed. American Writers in Paris, 1920-1939. Detroit: Gale Research

108

co., 1980.

24. Spiller, Robert E., et. al. Literary History Of The United States, 3rd ed. New York:

Macmillan,1963.

25. Van Doren, Carl, et al., eds. The Cambridge History of American Literature. New York:

Macmillan, 1917.

26. White, Barbara a., American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870: A Reference Guide. New

York: Garland Pub., 1990.

Semester IV

2E

Title: Multicultural Literatures from America


Credits: 4

109

Objectives:

i) To analyze American literary texts with reference to their historical, cultural,

ethnic and ideological contexts

Sr.

No.


Lectures

assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Toni Morrison: A Mercy or Jazz 6 25

2 Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine 6 25

3 Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun 6 25

4 Selected poems by Black American, Native

American and other Immigrant poets given

below 6

25

Note: Names of some poets and their poems are given below. However,

students may also choose and study other Black American and Native

American poets and poems.

From Harper’s Anthology of 20th century Native American Poetry - edited by Duane Niatum

Elizabeth Cook – Lynn

Grandfather at the Indian Health Clinic

My Grandmother’s Burial Ground

N.Scott Momaday

The Bear

Pit Viper

The Burning

Simon Ortiz

A Story of How a Wall Wtands

Spreading Wings on Wind

Bend in the River

Paula Gunn Allen

Taku Skanskan

Dear World

110

Meditations on the Moon

Linda Hogan

To Light

Man in the Moon

Celebrations : Birth of a Colt

Duane Niatum

The Traveler

The Art of Clay

African American Poetry Langston Hughes

I, Too

Mother to Son

The Negro Speaks Of Rivers

Claude McKay

If We Must Die

America

Enslaved

Amiri Baraka

Ka 'Ba

Wise I ,

Maya Angelou

Phenomenal Woman

Still I Rise

Gwendolyn Brooks

We Real Cool

The Mother

Nikki Giovanni

(from ‘The Collected works of Nikki Giovanni)

Ego Tripping

111

Woman (http://hellopoetry.com/poem/544494/w-o-m-a-n-nikki-giovanni/)

The Lion In Daniel’s Den ( for Paul Robeson, Sr.)


1. Abel, Darrel. Ruined Eden of the Present: Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe: Critical Essays

in Honor of Darrel Abel. eds. G.R. Thompson and Virgil L. Lokke. West Lafayette:

Purdue UP, 1981.

2. Barrish, Phillip. American Literary Realism: Critical Theory and Intellectual Prestige,

1880-1995. Cambridge: Oxford U P, 2001.

3. Bell, Michael Davitt. The Problem of American Realism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1993.

4. Belluscio, Steven J. To Be Suddenly White: Literary Realism and Racial Passing.

Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2006.

5. Buell, Lawrence. Literary Transcendentalism: Style and Vision in the American

Renaissance.Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.

6. Chase, Richard. The American Novel and Its Tradition. Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday

Anchor,1957.

7. Elliot, Emory., and Cathy N. Davidson, eds. The Columbia History of the American

Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991.

8. Myerson, Joel, ed. The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. New

York: Modern Language Association, 1984

9. Lewis, R. W. B. The American Adam: Innocence, Tragedy, and Tradition in the

Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University Chicago Press, 1955.

10. Pattee, Fred Lewis. The Development of the American Short Story. [1966] New York:

Harper, 1923.

11. Pizer, Donald. Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth Century American Fiction.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois U P, 1966.

12. Warren, Joyce W., ed. The (Other) American Tradition: Nineteenth-Century Women

Writers.

13. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993

14. Winter, Molly Crumpton. American Narratives: Multiethnic Writing in the Age of

Realism.

15. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2007.

http://hellopoetry.com/poem/544494/w-o-m-a-n-nikki-giovanni/

112

Semester IV

Cluster F

1F

Title: Concept of Canadian Identity

113

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i)To provide a social and historical perspective for the study of Canadian literature.

ii)To examine the Canadian novel of social and psychological realism as an

attempt to understand Canadian society in urban and rural settings.

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage

in %

1 Selections I and X and

Landscapes and Mindscape- Section II

from

Canadian Voices. edited by Shirin

Kudchedkar and Jameela Begum A.

Pencraft International,New

Delhi,110052 6

25

2 Ringuet :Thirty Acres 6 25

3 Sinclair Ross :As for me and my House 6 25

4 Gabrielle Roy: The Tin Flute 6 25


1. Margaret Atwood, Survival

2. Frank Birdalsingh, Novels and the Nation

3. Allison Mitcham, The Northern Imagination

4. Coral Ann Howells, Canadian Signatures in the Feminine

5. Emily Allen Williams, Poetic Negotiation of Identity in the Works of Brathwite,

Harris, senior, and Dabydeen

6. E.D. Blodgett, Confignration: Essays on the Canadian Literatures

7 Philip Stratfort, All the Polarities

8 Brue Meyer and Brian O’Riordan, In their Words

9 Francesco Loriggio Edited, Social Pluralism

114

10 S. Kudchedkar edited, Violence Against Women/ Women Against Violence

Semester IV

2F

Title: Canadian Modernist and Postmodernist Writings

Credits: 4

Objectives:

i) to examine the applicability of the concept of the modern and the post

modern in the context of Canadian Fiction and Drama

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weigtage in

%

1 Margaret Atwood: Surfacing 6 25

2 Hubert Aquin: Prochain Episode 6 25

3 Denise Boucher :The Fairies Are

Thirsty 6 25

4 Thomson Highway :The Rez

Sisters 6 25


1. S. Kudchedkar edited, Postmodernism and Feminism

2. Janet Paterson, Postmodernism and the Quebec Novel

3. Linda Hutcheon, Postmodernism

4. Marie Vautier, New World Myth ; Postmodernism and Postcoloialism in Canadian

Fiction

5. Robert Kroetsch, Labyrinths of Voice

6. Janice Williamson, Sounding Differences

7. Arnold Davidson, Priscilla L. Walton, and Jennifer Andrews

8. Helen Hoy, How Should I Dead These?

9. Susan Knutson, Narrative in the Feminine

115

10. Barbara Godard, Gyn/ Ecology

Semester IV

(For Distance Learning students only)

1 Any one of the following Clusters:

Cluster G- 1Gand 2G (two papers)

OR

116

Cluster H- 1H and 2H (two papers)

Semester IV

1G

Title: Women's Articulation and Patriarchal Projection


Credits: 4

Objectives:

i. to sensitize students to representations of women in literature.

ii. to study representations of women across periods and cultures.

iii. to draw from the ongoing debates on politics of representation of women

and self-representation from the domains of women’s studies and related

areas.

Sr.

No.


assigned (2 hrs

per lecture)

Weightage

in %

1 The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood,

1985. 7

25

2 Women writing in India vol. 1 (1991,

1993) . Editors-Tharu, Susie J;Lalitha, K;

New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Selections 8

25

3 Women writing in India vol. 2 (1991,

1993) Editors-Tharu, Susie J;Lalitha, K;

New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Selections 8

25

4 Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence. ed.

Charles L. Ross (Harmondsworth,

Middlesex Penguin, 1982). 7

25


1. Gubar, Susan and Sandra Gilbert. Madwoman in the Attic (New Haven and London: Yale

University Press, 1979)

117

2. Petersen, Kirsten Holst, and Anna Rutherford. A double colonization: colonial and post-

colonial women's writing. Dangaroo Press, 1986.

3. Warland, Betsy, ed. InVersions: Writing by Dykes, Queers & Lesbians. Press Gang Pub,

1991.

4. Vanita, Ruth. Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile. New Delhi: Yoda Press, 2005.

5. Gender & Caste: Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism ( New Delhi, Kali for

Women, 2003).

6. Beauvoir, Simone. The Second Sex,( New York, Knopf, 1953).

7. Donovan, Josephine (ed)Feminist Literary Criticism (Lexington: University Press of

Kentucky,1975)

8. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political

Controversies.(London: Routledge.)


10. Warhol Robin and Diane price Herndl Feminisms (1991) NewBrunswick, New Jersey:

Rutgers University Press.

11. Wollestencraft, Mary (1992) A Vindication of the Rights of Women. London. Penguin.

118

Semester IV

2G

Title: Innovative Forms in Women's Narratives


Credits: 4

Objectives:

i. to critically study the innovative and experimental forms evolved by women.

ii. to enable students to understand and analyse the formal, social, aesthetic

strategies and literary devices used by women writers to explore different

forms and women's experiences.

Sr.

No.


assigned(2 hrs

per lecture)

Weight

age in

%

1 1) Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys. Penguin.

1966.

6

25

2 2) For Colored Girls who Considered Suicide

Ntozake Shange. 1975.

6

25

3 3) Norton Anthology of Literature by Women

The Tradition in English: ed S.M.Gilbert and

Susan Gubar. Norton And Co. 1996.

(Selections given below)

6+6

25

4 4) The Blue Donkey and Other Fables. Suniti

Namjoshi. Womens Pr. Ltd. 1998.

6

25

Note: Names of some poets and their poems are given below. However,

students may also choose and study other Women poets and poems.

THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN The Tradition in English

Sandra M. Gilbert/ Susan Gubar

119

I. STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)

1. Dear Female Heart

2. Souvenir de Monsieur Poop

3. Human Affection

4. The Wanderer

5. How Cruel Is the Story of Eve

II. MARY SARTON (1912

1. My Sisters, O My Sisters

2. Letter From Chicago

3. The Muse as Medusa

III. MURIEL RUKEYSER(1913-1980)

1. Who in One Lifetime

2. The Birth of Venus

3. The Poem as Mask

4. The Power of Suicide

5. Kathe Kollwitz

IV. GWENODOLYN BROOKS (1917

1. Jessie Mitchell’s Mother

2. The Crazy Woman

3. Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat

4. Queen of the Blues

V. DENISE LEVERTOV (1923

1) The Goddess

2) Hypocrite Women

3) In Mind

4) The Ache of Marriage

5) About Marriage

6) Abel’s Bride

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7) The Son

8) The Mutes

9) Cancion

10) Divorcing

VI. ANNE SEXTON(1928-1974)

1) The Moss of His Skin

2) Sylvia’s Death

3) In Celebration of My Uterus

VII. ADRIENNE RICH (1929

1) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

2) Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

3) Planetarium

4) I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus

5) Diving into the Wreck

VIII. FLEUR ADCOCK (1934

1) Against Coupling

2) The Ex-Queen among the Astronomers

IX. KAMALA DAS (1934

1. An Introduction

X. AUDRE LORDE (1934

1) Coal

2) On a Night of the Full Moon

3) Now That I Am Forever with Child

4) From the House of Yemanja

5) Coniagui Women

6) The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their

Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors

XI. LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936

1) Admonitions

2) The astrologer predicts at mary’s birth

3) anna speaks of the childhood of mary her daughter

4) mary’s dreams

5) how he is coming then

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6) a song of mary

7) island mary

XII. MARGARET ATWOOD (1938

1) This Is a Photograph of Me

2) Circe/Mud Poems

3) Spelling

XIII. ERICA JONG (1942

1) Castration of the Pen

2) Alcestis on the Poetry

XIV. LOUISE GLUCK (1943

1) Illuminations

2) Dedication to Hunger

XV. LESLIE MARMON SILKO (1948

1) Lullaby

Recommended Readings: 1. Veronica Marie Gregg, Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the

Creole (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995)

2. Nancy Harrison, Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text (Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1988)

3. Lester, Neal A., Ntozake Shange: A Critical Study of the Plays, Garland (New York

City), 1995.

4. Ntozake, Shange. See No Evil, Prefaces, Essays and Accounts 1976-1983 (San Francisco:

Momo’s Press, 1984)

5. Brown, Janet. Feminist Drama: Definition and Critical Analysis (New Jersey and

London: The Scarecrow Press, 1979)

6. Vijayasree, C. Suniti Namjoshi: The Artful Transgressor. New Delhi: Rawat Books,

2001.

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THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN The Tradition in English

Sandra M. Gilbert/ Susan Gubar

XVI. STEVIE SMITH (1902-1971)

6. Dear Female Heart

7. Souvenir de Monsieur Poop

8. Human Affection

9. The Wanderer

10. How Cruel Is the Story of Eve

XVII. MARY SARTON (1912

4. My Sisters, O My Sisters

5. Letter From Chicago

6. The Muse as Medusa

XVIII. MURIEL RUKEYSER(1913-1980)

6. Who in One Lifetime

7. The Birth of Venus

8. The Poem as Mask

9. The Power of Suicide

10. Kathe Kollwitz

XIX. GWENODOLYN BROOKS (1917

5. Jessie Mitchell’s Mother

6. The Crazy Woman

7. Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat

8. Queen of the Blues

XX. DENISE LEVERTOV (1923

11) The Goddess

12) Hypocrite Women

13) In Mind

14) The Ache of Marriage

15) About Marriage

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16) Abel’s Bride

17) The Son

18) The Mutes

19) Cancion

20) Divorcing

XXI. ANNE SEXTON(1928-1974)

4) The Moss of His Skin

5) Sylvia’s Death

6) In Celebration of My Uterus

XXII. ADRIENNE RICH (1929

6) Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers

7) Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law

8) Planetarium

9) I Dream I’m the Death of Orpheus

10) Diving into the Wreck

XXIII. FLEUR ADCOCK (1934

3) Against Coupling

4) The Ex-Queen among the Astronomers

XXIV. KAMALA DAS (1934

2. An Introduction

XXV. AUDRE LORDE (1934

7) Coal

8) On a Night of the Full Moon

9) Now That I Am Forever with Child

10) From the House of Yemanja

11) Coniagui Women

12) The Women of Dan Dance with Swords in Their

Hands to Mark the Time When They Were Warriors

XXVI. LUCILLE CLIFTON (1936

8) Admonitions

9) The astrologer predicts at mary’s birth

10) anna speaks of the childhood of mary her daughter

11) mary’s dreams

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12) how he is coming then

13) a song of mary

14) island mary

XXVII. MARGARET ATWOOD (1938

4) This Is a Photograph of Me

5) Circe/Mud Poems

6) Spelling

XXVIII. ERICA JONG (1942

3) Castration of the Pen

4) Alcestis on the Poetry

XXIX. LOUISE GLUCK (1943

3) Illuminations

4) Dedication to Hunger

XXX. LESLIE MARMON SILKO (1948

Lullaby

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Semester IV

H 1 and H2

Any one of the following options:

(Children’s Literature and Science Fiction)

Semester IV

H 1

Title: Children’s Literature

Credits: 4

Objectives: i)to introduce some of the Semesterinal texts of Children’s Literature

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage in

%

1 Selections from The Oxford

Handbook of Children's

Literature

Ed by Julia Mickenberg and

Lynne Vallone (Introduction and

Peter Hunt. “The Fundamentals

of Children’s Literature

Criticism: Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland and Through the

Looking Glass”

9

25

2 Matilda: Roald Dahl 8 25

3 The Lord of the Rings: J.R.R

Tolkien

8 25

4 Sonar Kella :Satyajit Ray 5 25


1. Petzold, Dieter. "Wish-fulfilment and subversion: Roald Dahl's Dickensian

FantasyMatilda." Children's Literature in Education 23.4 (1992): 185-193.

2. Shavit, Zohar. Poetics of children's literature. University of Georgia Press, 2009.

3. Lynch-Brown, Carol, Carl M. Tomlinson, and Kathy Gnagey Short. Essentials of

children's literature. Allyn and Bacon, 2005.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R.R_Tolkien

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.R.R_Tolkien

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4. Zipes, Jack. Sticks and stones: the troublesome success of children's literature from

Slovenly Peter to Harry Potter. Routledge, 2013.

5. Chance, Jane. "The Lord of the Rings." The Mythology of Power, New York (1992).

6. Ed. Stuart Lee. A Companion to J.R.R Tolkien. Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014.

7. Raghavendra, M. K. SATYAJIT RAY: Storyteller to Moralist. HarperCollins Publishers,

2013.

8. Paganopoulos, Michenangelo. "The Changing World of Satyajit Ray: Reflections on

Anthropology and History." Media Watch (2013): 4.

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Semester IV

H 1

Title: Science Fiction

Credits: 4

Objectives: i)To introduce to the students the most treasured science fiction

Sr.

No.


assigned

Weightage in

%

1 Selections from

Cambridge Companion

to Science Fiction (ed)

Edward James and Farah

Mendlesohn

Cambridge University

Press.

9 25

2 I, Robot :Isaac Asimov 8 25

3 The Left Hand of

Darkness: Ursula K Le

Guin

8 25

4 Rokkeya Sakhawat

Hossain : Sultana’s

Dream

5 25


1. James, Edward (ed) Mendlesohn, Farah (ed).The Cambridge Companion to

Science Fiction (Cambridge Companion to Literature), Cambridge University

Press, 2003

2. Freedman, Carl. Critical Theory and Science Fiction, 2000

3. Seed, David. Science Fiction: A very Short Introduction, Oxford, 2011

4. Robert, Adam. The History of Science Fiction, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

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5. Luckhurst, Roger. Science Fiction, Polity 2005

6. Bould ,Mark (ed) and Bulter, Andrew M (ed)The Routledge Companion to

Science Fiction(Routledge Literature Companions), 2009.

(*As revised AC November 2014)